{"product_id":"daughters-of-mother-earth-the-wisdom-of-native-american-women-hardcover","title":"Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Alice Mann\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWinona LaDuke\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaughters of Mother Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is nothing less than a new way of looking at history--or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. It holds that for too long, elements unnatural to Native American ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America. Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite male privilege and conceptual linearity, have drowned out the democratic and woman-centered Native approaches. Even when the damage of western linearity is understood to occur, analysis of Native American history, society, and culture has still been relentlessly placed in male custody, following the western assumption that Euro-American men speak ably for all. This book seeks to redress that balance, allowing, as editor Barbara Alice Mann writes, the Daughters of Mother Earth to reclaim their ancient responsibility to speak in council, to tell the truth, to guide the rising generations through spirit-spoken wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe recovery of women's traditions is an important theme in this collection of essays that helps reframe Native issues as properly gendered. Thus, Paula Gunn Allen looks at Indian lifeways 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 McGowan identifies the exact sites where woman-power was weakened historically through the heavy impositions of European culture, the better to repair them. Finally, Barbara Mann examines how communication between Natives east and west of the Mississippi came to be so deranged as to be dysfunctional, and outlines how to reestablish good east-west relations for the benefit of all.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Alice Mann\u003c\/b\u003e, of Seneca descent, is a Lecturer in the English Department of the University of Toledo. Her scholarship in Native American Studies has resulted in several books, among them \u003ci\u003eGeorge Washington's War on Native America\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), \u003ci\u003eNative Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), and \u003ci\u003eIroquoian Women: The Gantowisas\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), as well as numerous articles. She lives, writes, teaches, and works for indigenous causes in her home state of Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9.28 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42111124078672,"sku":"9780275985622","price":151.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/U0hrNS92T3ZGTEErMENCcUxadUo1Zz09.webp?v=1772556560","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/daughters-of-mother-earth-the-wisdom-of-native-american-women-hardcover","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}