A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941

A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women's history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they eventually claimed it as their own field. From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie Debo, the magnitude of their

and social upheaval

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The year is 1870

As Virgil starts to link the pieces together

I can also get that Ferrari I’ve always wanted

A fascinating study for students of Indigenous and linguistic disciplines

and English sources

and in the highest offices of government and the military

In an introduction written for this anthology

and Pawnee Native American tribes

A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s

At the not-so-tender age of 8