Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Marlene Brant Castellano Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Carol Williams 1. Aboriginal Women and Work across the 49th Parallel: Historical Antecedents and New Challenges 27 Joan Sangster 2. Making a Living: Anishinaabe Women in Michigan’s Changing Economy 46 Alice Littlefield 3. Procuring Passage: Southern Australian Aboriginal Women and the Early Maritime Industry of Sealing 60 Lynette Russell 4. The Contours of Agency: Women’s Work, Race, and Queensland’s Indentured Labor Trade 73 Tracey Banivanua Mar 5. From “Superabundance” to Dependency: Women Agriculturalists and the Negotiation of Colonialism and Capitalism for Reservation-era Lummi 88 Chris Friday 6. “We Were Real Skookum Women”: The shíshálh Economy and the Logging Industry on the Pacific Northwest Coast 104 Susan Roy and Ruth Taylor 7. Unraveling the Narratives of Nostalgia: Navajo Weavers and Globalization 120 Kathy M’Closkey 8. Labor and Leisure in the “Enchanted Summer Land”: Anishinaabe Women’s Work and the Growth of Wisconsin Tourism, 1900–1940 136 Melissa Rohde 9. Nimble Fingers and Strong Backs: First Nations and Métis Women in Fur Trade and Rural Economies 148 Sherry Farrell Racette 10. Northfork Mono Women’s Agricultural Work, “Productive Coexistence,” and Social Well-Being in the San Joaquin Valley, California, circa 1850–1950 163 Heather A. Howard 11. Diverted Mothering among American Indian Domestic Servants, 1920–1940 179 Margaret D. Jacobs 12. Charity or Industry? American Indian Women and Work Relief in the New Deal Era 193 Colleen O’Neill 13. “An Indian Teacher among Indians”: Native Women As Federal Employees 210 Cathleen D. Cahill 14. “Assaulting the Ears of Government”: The Indian Homemakers’ Clubs and the Maori Women’s Welfare League in Their Formative Years 225 Aroha Harris and Mary Jane Logan McCallum 15. Politically Purposeful Work: Ojibwe Women’s Labor and Leadership in Postwar Minneapolis 240 Brenda J. Child 16. Maori Sovereignty, Black Feminism, and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement 254 Cybèle Locke 17. Beading Lesson 268 Beth H. Piatote Contributors 271 Index 279 ...