Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands

• Main Author: Sarah Carter (auth)
• Other Authors: Patricia A. McCormack (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2011
• Series: The West Unbound:Social and Cultural Studies
• Subjects: beadwork; native women; oral history; indian women; aboriginal history; aboriginal women
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individuals-a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other es...