Recollecting : : Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands / / edited by Sarah Carter, Patricia Alice McCormack.
"Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individuals--a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. O...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton : : Athabasca University Press,, 2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (422 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Lifelines: Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands / Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack Part 1: Transatlantic Connections1 Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert's Land / Susan Berry2 Lost Women: Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis / Patricia A. McCormack3 Christina Massan's Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History / Alison K. Brown, with Christina Massan & Alison GrantPart 2: Cultural Mediators4 Repositioning the Missionary: Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal Women in Catholic Missions of the Northwest / Lesley Erickson5 The "Accomplished" Odille Quintal Morison: Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary of Metlakatla, British Columbia / Maureen L. Atkinson6 Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada / Kristin BurnettPart 3: In the Borderlands7 Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman / Jean Barman8 The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work, and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman / Sarah CarterPart 4: The Spirit World9 Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo) / Nathan D. Carlson10 Pakwâciskwew: A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman / Susan Elaine Gray Part 5: Challenging and Crafting Representations 11 Frances Nickawa: "A Gifted Interpreter of the Poetry of Her Race" / Jennifer S.H. Brown12 Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo's Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes / Kristin L. Gleeson Notes List of Contributors Index.