indian women

Retells sixteen Native American stories about womanhood from tribes throughout North America, including the Seneca, Cherokee, Apache, Okanagan, and several others.

After Geraldine Coutts is attacked on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, her husband Bazil, a tribal judge, tries to find justice for his wife, and their teenage son Joe tries to help his mother heal.

Includes essays about nine Native Americans who have made positive contributions to the arts, politics, sports, and other aspects of life in the United States.

Presents twentieth-century Native American writer Leslie Marmon Silko's short story "Yellow Woman," in which a Pueblo wife and mother disappears briefly with a strange man; also includes a scholarly introduction, an interview with the author, eight critical essays, and a selected bibliography.

After spending years in foster homes, Angel returns to her family in the northwoods, five generations of Native-American women.

Traces the history of Native American women, looking at their roles within their cultures and how their lives were changed by the arrival of the Europeans. Also discusses how Native American women of the 20th century participate in contemporary society and culture.

Presents a brief profile of the early colonial women who came to America beginning in the early 1600s describing their importance to early colonial society.

Presents a collection of essays that profile the lives of over three hundred Native American Indians in history including religious, social, and political leaders, warriors, and reformers, as well as artists, writers, entertainers, athletes, and scientists.

Profiles Native Americans who had significant impact on the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, through their roles as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers.

A brief account of the life of the Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.