Keeping the campfires going native women's activism in urban communities / edited by Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather A. Howard.

Contents Urban clan mothers : key households in cities / Susan Lobo -- Gender and community organization leadership in the Chicago Indian community -- Anne Terry Straus and Debra Valentino -- Indigenous agendas and activist genders : Chicago's American Indian center, social welfare, and Native American women's urban leadership / Grant Arndt -- "Assisting our own" : urban migration, self-governance, and Native women's organizing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1972-1989 / Nancy Janovicek -- Their spirits live within us : Aboriginal women in downtown eastside Vancouver emerging into visibility / Dara Culhane -- "How will I sew my baskets" : women vendors, market art, and incipient political activism in Anchorage, Alaska / Molly Lee -- Women's class strategies as activism in Native community building in Toronto, 1950-1975 / Heather A. Howard -- Creating change, reclaiming space in postworld War II Seattle : the American Indian women's service league and the Seattle Indian center, 1958-1978 / Mary C. Wright -- What came out of the takeovers : women's activism and the Indian community school of Milwaukee / Susan Applegate Krouse -- Telling Paula Starr : Native American woman as urban Indian icon / Joan Weibel-Orlando.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009004626
ISBN9780803220508 (pbk. : alk. paper)