Recollecting lives of Aboriginal women of the Canadian northwest and borderlands (AU Press, 2011)
Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca
Includes bibliographical references and index
Lifelines: Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands - Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack -- - Part 1 - Transatlantic Connections - Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert's Land - Susan Berry -- - Lost Women: Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis - Patricia A. McCormack -- - Christina Massan's Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History - Alison K. Brown, with Christina Massan and Alison Grant -- - Part 2 - Cultural Mediators - Repositioning the Missionary: Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal Women in Catholic Missions of the Northwest - Lesley Erickson -- - The "Accomplished" Odille Quintal Morison: Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary of Metlakatla, British Columbia - Maureen L. Atkinson -- - Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada - Kristin Burnett -- - Part 3 - In the Borderlands - Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman - Jean Barman -- - The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work, and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman - Sarah Carter -- - Part 4 - The Spirit World - Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo) - Nathan D. Carlson -- - Pakwâciskwew: A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman - Susan Elaine Gray -- - Part 5 - Challenging and Crafting Representations - Frances Nickawa: "A Gifted Interpreter of the Poetry of Her Race" - Jennifer S.H. Brown -- - Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo's Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes - Kristin L. Gleeson
"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. Other essays examine cohorts of women--wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories. Exploring the constraints and boundaries these women encountered, the authors engage with difficult and important questions of gender, race, and identity. Collectively these essays demonstrate the complexity of "contact zone" interactions, and they enrich and challenge dominant narratives about histories of the Canadian Northwest."--Publisher's description