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“They were tough, those old women before us”: The Power of Gossip in Isabel Meadows’s Narratives
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 39, Number 3, Summer 2016
- pp. 373-401
- 10.1353/bio.2016.0047
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay argues that the immense and powerful reservoir of “ethnographic notes” is actually the Indigenous storyteller’s body of work. Focusing exclusively on the narratives of Carmel Indian Isabel Meadows about a Carmel woman named Estéfana Real, the lens of Athabascan scholar Dian Million’s “felt theory” establishes Isabel as a storyteller, scholar, and cultural activist who essentially uses Harrington as a note taker for communicating with future Indian communities through Indigenous storytelling strategies.