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Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands
Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack
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This rich collection of essays illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, 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.
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Cover
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Lifelines: Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands
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PART ONE: Transatlantic Connections
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1 Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert’s Land
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2 Lost Women: Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis
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3 Christina Massan’s Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History
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PART TWO: Cultural Mediators
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4 Repositioning the Missionary: Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal Women in Catholic Missions of the Northwest
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5 The “Accomplished” Odille Quintal Morison: Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary of Metlakatla, British Columbia
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6 Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada
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PART THREE: In the Borderlands
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7 Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman
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8 The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work, and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman
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PART FOUR: The Spirit World
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9 Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo)
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10 Pakwâciskwew: A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman
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PART FIVE: Challenging and Crafting Representations
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11 Frances Nickawa: “A Gifted Interpreter of the Poetry of Her Race”
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12 Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo’s Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes
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Notes
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List of Contributors
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Index
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2011 Winner, Armitage-Jameson Prize (Western History Association and the Coalition for Western Women's History)
2012 Winner, Best Book in Aboriginal History Prize (Canadian Historical Association)
2012 Winner, Best Scholarly and Academic Book (Book Publishers Association of Alberta)
2012 Winner, Willa Literary Award, Scholarly Nonfiction (Women Writing the West)
2012 Winner, Best Book in Aboriginal History Prize (Canadian Historical Association)
2012 Winner, Best Scholarly and Academic Book (Book Publishers Association of Alberta)
2012 Winner, Willa Literary Award, Scholarly Nonfiction (Women Writing the West)
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Published: 2011
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
- 978-1-926836-32-4 (ebook)
- 978-1-897425-83-1 (ebook)
- 978-1-897425-82-4 (paper)