Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and BorderlandsSarah Carter, Patricia Alice McCormack 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 |
Common terms and phrases
Aboriginal Aboriginal women Alberta Anahareo Anishinabe Archives Athabasca Auger beadwork Beaver born British Columbia Calgary Canada Canadian Catherine Catholic Christie Christina Massan Church Churchill Cree cultural daughter Duncan Edmonton Edmonton Bulletin Emma Emma’s Euro-Canadian father Flathead Frances Nickawa fur trade Gertie girls Grey Nuns Grey Owl HBCA Henry Hudson’s Bay Company husband Ibid Île-à-la-Crosse Indian Indigenous James Jennifer S.H. Brown journal Kootenai later Lesser Slave Lake letter Lewis lived Louis Manitoba marriage married Mary Métis Metlakatla Minesinger mission missionary moccasins Moir Moir’s Monkman Montana Memories Morison mother Native North northern Northwest Odille Ojibwa Orkney Pauline Johnson Press records Red River Riley to Young Sara Riel Saskatchewan Scotland scrip sewing Sinclair sister Society Southesk stories Taché Tate tion Tobacco Plains Toronto Trout Lake Tsimshian University Waniyande West Western wife Wigwam to Concert wîhtikôw William Winnipeg wives woman wrote York Factory