Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

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Sarah Carter, Patricia Alice McCormack
Athabasca University Press, 2011 - History - 422 pages

Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of late eighteenth-century to the mid twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individual women - a trader, a performer, a non-human woman - while others examine cohorts of women - wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing also on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories.

 

Contents

ILLUSTRATIONS
2
Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands
5
In the Borderlands
22
Transatlantic Connections
27
Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis
61
3 Christina Massans Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History
89
Cultural Mediators
113
Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary
135
Windows on the Family Work
197
daughter Mary Ann c 1890s
213
The Spirit World
223
A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman
245
Challenging and Crafting Representations
261
Anahareos Rejection of EuroCanadian Stereotypes
287
Notes
313
List of Contributors
409

Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada
157
Free Trader Free Woman
175

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