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Messengers of the wind

Native American women tell their life stories

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An edition of Messengers of the Wind (1995)

Messengers of the wind

Native American women tell their life stories

1st ed.
  • 5 Want to read

For generations the lives of Native American women have been kept in the shadows. Now, in Messengers of the Wind, these extraordinary Americans illuminate their diverse traditions, roles, and present-day realities. For though they share common threads of experience and history, Native women do not inhabit one contained world with a specific name, but rather many worlds.

Native American women old and young, from a variety of tribal groups, speak with eloquence and passion about their experience on the land and in urban areas; about their work as artists, activists, and healers; as grandmothers, mothers, and daughters; as modern professional women with a link to the past.

On an Ojibway reservation, a grandmother faces arrest rather than relinquish treaty rights; an Inupiat woman shares her spiritual connection to the Alaskan landscape; an Upper Skagit elder speaks of ancient tribal values and ceremonies she is helping perpetuate. All the women testify to the struggle of keeping Native ways alive in a time and place constantly threatening to trample them.

  1. And as each woman, renowned and obscure, tells her remarkable personal story, it is clear that each has tapped into the power that comes from within, and has reached back into a history that brings with it courage and hope. In strong, clear voices, Native women communicate the vision derived from their ancestors, which guides them as they forge new paths in a changing world.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
317

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Cover of: Kaze no kotoba o tsutaete
Kaze no kotoba o tsutaete: Neitibu Amerikan no onnatachi
1998, Tsukiji Shokan
in Japanese - Shohan.
Cover of: Messengers of the wind
Messengers of the wind: Native American women tell their life stories
1996, One World
in English - 1st trade pbk. ed
Cover of: Messengers of the Wind
Messengers of the Wind
March 5, 1996, One World/Ballantine
Paperback in English
Cover of: Messengers of the wind
Messengers of the wind: Native American women tell their life stories
1995, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Messengers of the Wind
Messengers of the Wind: Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories
March 21, 1995, One World/Ballantine
Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-306) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
970.004/97, B
Library of Congress
E98.W8 M47 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 317 p. :
Number of pages
317

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1097295M
Internet Archive
messengersofwind00newy
ISBN 10
0345390601
LCCN
94021938
OCLC/WorldCat
30624084
Library Thing
702511
Goodreads
347881

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Taos, in northern New Mexico, is the home of the Ia sla pi, the Red Willow People.
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