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Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2001. ISBN 978-0-203-80104-8. McClinton-Temple, Jennifer and Alan Velie. Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature. New York: Facts on File, 2007. ISBN 978-0816-05656-9. Porter, Joy and Kenneth M. Roemer, eds. The Cambridge Companion To Native American ...
Green has written or edited four books (Native American Women: A Contextual Bibliography (1983); That’s What She Said: Contemporary Fiction and Poetry By Native American Women (editor, 1984); Women in American Indian Society (1992); The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America (1999) and is also the author of many academic articles ...
Native American woman at work. Life in society varies from tribe to tribe and region to region, but some general perspectives of women include that they "value being mothers and rearing healthy families; spiritually, they are considered to be extensions of the Spirit Mother and continuators of their people; socially, they serve as transmitters of cultural knowledge and caretakers of children ...
She was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events. Clyde Bellecourt White Earth Ojibwe activist and co-founder of the American Indian Movement; Carter Camp, Ponca activist [14] Don Coyhis, Mohican, sobriety leader and mental health activist, lecturer and author. Founder of ...
(The women's teams, though by the 2010s long since re-dubbed "Marlets", had previously been known as the "Squaws".) [7] Others, including indigenous students and Washington State University professor C. Richard King, argue that the name itself is generally used as a disparaging term for indigenous peoples, reinforcing stereotypes and white ...
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
Nimi McConigley, first Indian American women to serve in any American State legislature served in the Wyoming State Legislature from 1994 until 1996 (Republican) Aruna Miller, 10th Lt. Governor of Maryland and the first South Asian woman elected lieutenant governor in the United States, [27] (Democratic)
A Mi'kmaq, Aquash was the highest-ranking woman activist in the American Indian Movement (AIM) at the time. She was killed several months after two FBI agents had been killed at the reservation. Many Lakota believe that she was killed by AIM on suspicion of having been an FBI informant, but she never worked for the FBI. [133]