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Upon her shoulders : Southeastern Native women share their stories of justice, spirit, and community Cover Image

Upon her shoulders : Southeastern Native women share their stories of justice, spirit, and community / Mary Ann Jacobs, Cherry Maynor Beasley, Ulrike Wiethaus, editors.

Jacobs, Mary Ann, 1963- (editor.). Beasley, Cherry Maynor, 1951- (editor.). Wiethaus, Ulrike, (editor.).

Summary:

"This book documents the autobiographical stories and poems of Southeastern American Indian women whose hard work and daily fight to keep their communities well and safe is all too often disregarded by mainstream publications and the general public. At the end of each section, the editors provide questions for reflection. Aimed at general readers and especially American Indian women themselves, this book celebrates the voices of those in native communities in the US Southeast, a region rarely covered in other publications. The editors, with deep roots in the scholarship and culture of Indian women, have collected original stories, narratives, and poems. Featured prominently is the Lumbee Indian community, where two of the editors (one of them active in the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) teach at the nearby University of North Carolina at Pembroke College, a center for scholarship about the Lumbee people. Traditional American Indian culture places high value on teaching and passing down knowledge through story and oral history, and this volume honors that tradition with the written narratives and poetry of a variety of Native women. Through this work, provided by professional and everyday writers, readers learn about the societies that have raised girls from an early age to be independent and competent leaders, to access traditional Native spirituality despite religious oppression, and to fight for justice for themselves and Native peoples across the nation in the face of legal and societal oppression. Included in this volume is Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle who documents the work of Cherokee linguist Marie Junaluska"-- Provided by publisher

Record details

ISBN: 9781949467802
ISBN: 1949467805
Physical Description: xxiii, 178 pages ; 18 cm
Publisher: Durham, North Carolina : Blair, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:	Place of publication from publisher's Web site.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword / Mary Kim Titla -- Introduction: Women sharing their wisdom / Mary Ann Jacobs, Cherry Maynor Beasley, and Ulrike Wiethaus -- Part one: Make yourself useful, child -- Introduction / Cherry Maynor Beasley -- My questions for creator / Madison York -- You can help others do more than you did / Ruth Revels -- A firm foundation to withstand the storms of life / Mary Ann Elliott -- Mary Alice, play for us / Mary Alice Pinchbeck Teets -- Connecting memory to a new reality: An interview with Cherokee Elder Marie Junaluska / Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle -- To be a part of it / Barbara Locklear -- Our people are moving in a positive direction / Mardella Sunshine Constanzo Richardson -- Native American / Olivia Brown -- In closing: Contemplating words of wisdom by our women elders -- Part two: Spirit medicine -- Introduction Ulrike Wiethaus -- Some Indian women / Marijo Moore -- Spirit Medicine / Kim Pevia -- Clan mother / Daphine L. Strickland -- Bruises of a battered woman / Christine Hewlin -- Not anymore / Nora Dial-Stanley -- Farming always brings us home / Charlene Hunt -- In closing: Contemplating words of wisdom by our women elders -- Part three: Getting justice when there was none -- Introduction / Mary Ann Jacobs -- Patchwork images / Gayle Simmons Cushing -- The Alcatraz occupation and the advent of civil rights and American Indian nationalism / Ruth Dial Woods -- This is something I am really glad to participate in: Two generations reflect on the black lives matter movement / Flora Jacobs and Mary Ann Jacobs -- I always knew I was Indian / Kay Oxendine -- Uncle R. never killed nobody that didn't deserve it / Mary Ann Jacobs -- Knowledge is power / Rosa Winfree -- In closing: Contemplating words of wisdom by our women elders.