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Daughters of Mother Earth The Wisdom of Native American Women
Barbara Alice Mann
Foreword by Winona LaDuke
Book Code: C8562
ISBN: 0-275-98562-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-98562-2
152 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2006
List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £22.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Believing that it is important to privilege the voices of Native American women over those of Eurocentric male writers of Native American history, Mann presents four essays that explore issues of Native American history and culture. The major topics include the role of dress and dance in the lifeways of Indians, the need to reconstitute traditional social structures, how the imposition of European culture disempowered Native American women, and the need to repair cultural communication between Native Americans of the east and the west of the Mississippi.
    —Reference & Research Book News     November 2006
  • Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women tells about the recovery of women's traditions, an important theme in the collection of essays in this volume.
    —Multicultural Review     Spring 2007
  • College-level collections strong in Native American studies will welcome Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women. It goes beyone women's studies alone, maintaining that elements unnatural to Native ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America's elements consisting of European prejudice and male privilege. This focus on women's traditions provides essays which examines Indian lifestyles and history through women's lives and eyes. A fine approach which adds different perspective to Native history and issues.
    —Internet Bookwatch/The Bookwatch     September 2006
Description: Daughters of Mother Earth is nothing less than a new way of looking at history--or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. It holds that for too long, elements unnatural to Native American ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America. Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite male privilege and conceptual linearity, have drowned out the democratic and woman-centered Native approaches. Even when the damage of western linearity is understood to occur, analysis of Native American history, society, and culture has still been relentlessly placed in male custody, following the western assumption that Euro-American men speak ably for all.
This book seeks to redress that balance, allowing, as editor Barbara Alice Mann writes, "the Daughters of Mother Earth to reclaim their ancient responsibility to speak in council, to tell the truth, to guide the rising generations through spirit-spoken wisdom."
The recovery of women's traditions is an important theme in this collection of essays that helps reframe Native issues as properly gendered. Thus, Paula Gunn Allen looks at Indian lifeways through the many stitches of Indian clothes and the many steps of their powwow fancy-dances. Lee Maracle calls for reconstitution of traditional social structures, based on Native American ways of knowing. Kay McGowan identifies the exact sites where woman-power was weakened historically through the heavy impositions of European culture, the better to repair them. Finally, Barbara Mann examines how communication between Natives east and west of the Mississippi came to be so deranged as to be dysfunctional, and outlines how to reestablish good east-west relations for the benefit of all.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Series Foreword
  • Preface
  • Does Euro-Think Become Us? by Paula Gunn Allen
  • Decolonizing Native Women by Lee Maracle
  • Weeping for the Lost Matriarchy by Kay Givens McGowan
  • Bigliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2006015392
LCC Class: E98
Dewey Class: 305
PDF Catalogs:
Greenwood Multicultural Spring 2008.pdf
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