Keeping the Campfires Going
eBook - PDF

Keeping the Campfires Going

Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Keeping the Campfires Going

Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities

About this book

The essays in this groundbreaking anthology, Keeping the Campfires Going, highlight the accomplishments of and challenges confronting Native women activists in American and Canadian cities. Since World War II, Indigenous women from many communities have stepped forward through organizations, in their families, or by themselves to take action on behalf of the growing number of Native people living in urban areas. This collection recounts and assesses the struggles, successes, and legacies of several of these women in cities across North America, from San Francisco to Toronto, Vancouver to Chicago, and Seattle to Milwaukee. These wide-ranging and insightful essays illuminate Native communities in cities as well as the women activists working to build them.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Urban Clan Mothers
  5. 2. Gender and Community Organization Leadership in the Chicago Indian Community
  6. 3. Indigenous Agendas and Activist Genders
  7. 4. “Assisting Our Own”
  8. 5. Their Spirits Live within Us
  9. 6. “How Will I Sew My Baskets?”
  10. 7. Women’s Class Strategies as Activism in Native Community Building in Toronto, 1950–1975
  11. 8. Creating Change, Reclaiming Indian Space in Post–World War II Seattle
  12. 9. What Came Out of the Takeovers
  13. 10. Telling Paula Starr
  14. Contributors
  15. Index