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About the Book
Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West.
Some essays focus on individuals--a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women--wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories. Exploring the constraints and boundaries these women encountered, the authors engage with difficult and important questions of gender, race, and identity. Collectively these essays demonstrate the complexity of "contact zone" interactions, and they enrich and challenge dominant narratives about histories of the Canadian Northwest.
About the Author(s)
Sarah Carter is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in both the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Her most recent books are The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada and Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own.
Patricia McCormack is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on Aboriginal peoples of the northwestern Plains, northern Canada, and Scotland, in the contexts of the fur trade and the expansion of state. She has published extensively about Fort Chipewyan, including a new book to be published shortly by UBC Press.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations – vii
Acknowledgments – ix
Lifelines: Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands – 5
Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack
PART ONE: Transatlantic Connections
(1) Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert’s Land – 29
Susan Berry
(2) Lost Women: Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis – 61
Patricia A. McCormack
(3) Christina Massan’s Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History – 89
Alison K. Brown, with Christina Massan & Alison Grant
PART TWO: Cultural Mediators
(4) Repositioning the Missionary: Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal Women
in Catholic Missions of the Northwest – 115
Lesley Erickson
(5) The "Accomplished" Odille Quintal Morison: Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary
of Metlakatla, British Columbia – 135
Maureen L. Atkinson
(6) Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada – 157
Kristin Burnett
PART THREE: In the Borderlands
(7) Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman – 175
Jean Barman
(8) The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work,
and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman – 197
Sarah Carter
PART FOUR: The Spirit World
(9) Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo) – 225
Nathan D. Carlson
(10) Pakwâciskwew: A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman – 245
Susan Elaine Gray
PART FIVE: Challenging and Crafting Representations
(11) Frances Nickawa: “A Gifted Interpreter of the Poetry of Her Race” – 263
Jennifer S.H. Brown
(12) Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo’s Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes – 287
Kristin L. Gleeson
Notes – 313
List of Contributors – 409
Index – 413
Reviews
Sample Chapter
A sample chapter of this title is not available at this time. For further information, please email info@ubcpress.ubc.ca.
Related Topics
Native Studies
History
Women's Studies
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