Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America
Strong Women, Resilient Nations
Medicine, Education, and the Arts in Contemporary Native America
Strong Women, Resilient Nations
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This book highlights indigenous American women throughout modern American history, countering past stereotypes by offering twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women who excelled in education, health, medicine, and the arts.
This edited work presents generally short biographical studies of 20 quite extraordinary Native American/First Nations women who have contributed creatively and productively to the humanities, science, education, medicine, and community work, each with a sharp focus on social justice. Trafzer, Akers, and Wixon frame these diverse women, born collectively between the late 19th century and 1960, in an introduction centered on the prominence of women and female spiritual principles throughout all Indigenous societies, spanning diverse times and places. Brief sketches of the women are woven throughout the introduction, highlighting the influences of those with whom each woman worked and collaborated. Overall, the book demonstrates how these women addressed and resisted the ravages of infectious disease, medical and educational neglect and malpractice, racism, sexism, assimilation, and other interlocking expressions of discrimination on behalf of their broader communities. The approach of seeking historical understanding through biographical analysis is successful. Recommended. All readers.
Clifford E. Trazer is distinguished professor of history and Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs at the University of California, Riverside.
Donna L. Akers (Choctaw) is professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Amanda K. Wixon (Chickasaw) and is Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of California, Riverside.