Make a Beautiful Way

The Wisdom of Native American Women

By: Barbara Alice Mann (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 July 2008

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Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history--or more correctly, the re-establishment of a very old way. For too long, Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite male privilege and conceptual linearity, have drowned out democratic and woman-centred Native approaches. Even when myopic western linearity is understood to be at work, analysis of Native American history, society, and culture has still been consistently placed in male custody. The recovery of women's traditions is the overarching theme in this collection of essays that helps reframe Native issues as properly gendered. Paula Gunn Allen looks at Indian life-ways through the many stitches of Indian clothes and the many steps of their powwow fancy dances. Lee Maracle calls for reconstitution of traditional social structures, based on Native American ways of knowing. Kay Givens McGowan identifies the exact sites where female power was weakened through the imposition of European culture, so that we might more effectively strengthen precisely those sites.Finally, Barbara Alice Mann examines how communication between Natives who have federal recognition and those who do not, as well as between Natives east and west of the Mississippi, became dysfunctional, and outlines how to re-establish good relations for the benefit of all.

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"[Make a Beautiful Way] goes beyond women's studies alone, maintaining that elements unnatural to Native ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America's elements consisting of European prejudice and male privilege. This focus on women's traditions provides essays which examine Indian lifestyles and history through women's lives and eyes. A fine approach which adds different perspective to Native history and issues."-Bookwatch

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Sociology & Anthropology Sociology Sociology & Customs & Traditions Ethnic Studies

Indigenous Peoples

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Does Euro-Think Become Us?	p. 1
Decolonizing Native Women	p. 29
Weeping for the Lost Matriarchy	p. 53
Slow Runners	p. 69
Bibliography	p. 111
Contributors' Biographies	p. 121
Index	p. 125
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The Wisdom of Native American Women

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