Holding Our World Together by Brenda J Child

Holding Our World Together by Brenda J Child

A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities

In this well-researched and deeply felt account, Brenda J. Child, a professor and a member of the Red Lake Ojibwe tribe, gives Native American women their due, detailing the many ways in which they have shaped Native American life. She illuminates the lives of women such as Madeleine Cadotte, who became a powerful mediator between her people and European fur traders, and Gertrude Buckanaga, whose postwar community activism in Minneapolis helped bring many Indian families out of poverty. Moving from the early days of trade with Europeans through the reservation era and beyond, Child offers a powerful tribute to the courageous women who sustained Native American communities through the darkest challenges of the past three centuries.

Brenda J. Child, a member of the Red Lake Ojibwe Nation, is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and the author of Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families: 1900-1940. She is also on the advisory board for the Penguin Library of American Indian History.

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ISBN 13	9780143121596
ISBN 10	0143121596
Title	Holding Our World Together
Author	Brenda J Child
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-01-29
Number of pages	240
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