Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women's Activism in Urban Communities

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction susan applegate krouse and heather a. howard ix 1 Urban Clan Mothers: Key Households in Cities susan lobo 1 2 Gender and Community Organization Leadership in the Chicago Indian Community anne terry straus and debra valentino 22 3 Indigenous Agendas and Activist Genders: Chicago’s American Indian Center, Social Welfare, and Native American Women’s Urban Leadership grant arndt 34 4 “Assisting Our Own”: Urban Migration, Self-Governance, and Native Women’s Organizing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1972–1989 nancy janovicek 56 5 Their Spirits Live within Us: Aboriginal Women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver Emerging into Visibility dara culhane 76 6 “How Will I Sew My Baskets?”: Women Vendors, Market Art, and Incipient Political Activism in Anchorage, Alaska molly lee 93 7 Women’s Class Strategies as Activism in Native Community Building in Toronto, 1950–1975 heather a. howard 105 8 Creating Change, Reclaiming Indian Space in Post–World War II Seattle: The American Indian Women’s Service League and the Seattle Indian Center, 1958–1978 mary c. wright 125 9 What Came Out of the Takeovers: Women’s Activism and the Indian Community School of Milwaukee susan applegate krouse 146 10 Telling Paula Starr: Native American Woman as Urban Indian Icon joan weibel-orlando 163 Contributors 189 Index 193 ...