Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women's History in Canada
Language: English
Pages: 264
ISBN: B00DH0M4CC
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas of inquiry in women’s, social, and Aboriginal history. Finding a Way to the Heart examines race, gender, identity, and colonization from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and illustrates Van Kirk’s extensive influence on a generation of feminist scholarship.
Lake, Ann McGrath, Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation, 1788–1990 (South Yarra [Aus]: McPhee Gribble Penguin Books, 1994): 147–8; Myra Tonkinson, “Sisterhood or Aboriginal Servitude? Black Women and White Women on the Australian Frontier,” Aboriginal History 12 (1988): 34. 26. McGregor, Imagined Destinies, 121. 27. Smits, “Squaw Men,” 55. 28. Ibid., 32–33. 29. Wolfe, “Land, Labor and Difference,” 877n35. 30. Winthrop Jordan quoted in ibid., 871–72. 31. Ibid., 886, 892. See also Smits, “Squaw
106–120; Bonita Lawrence, “Approaching the Fourth Mountain: Native Women and the Ageing Process,” in Strong Women Voices, 121–134. 18. Kathleen Jamieson, “Indian Women and the Law in Canada: Citizens Minus,” Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women and Indian Rights for Indian Women, Ottawa, 1978. See also Fay Blaney, “Aboriginal Women’s Action Network,” Strong Women Voices, 156–170. For various reports produced by NWAC and other organizations advocating for Indigenous women see
and gender history to wave before our opponents when they declared that the field lacked a legitimate body of scholarship? We even considered a contingency plan for after the department had rejected our proposal. Although a member of our group, Sylvia was too busy with administrative duties and committee work to attend our meetings, though she had given us her support. Feeling increasingly frustrated by all the time spent at these preparatory meetings, I decided to approach Sylvia for advice. I
Writing since 1900, 2nd edition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), 113. 7. See, for examples, Carolyn Steedman, Landscape of a Good Woman (Rutgers: N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1987); contributions by Richard White, Philip J. Deloria, Kareen Halttunen, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Michael O’Brien, John Demos, and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “Round Table: Self and Subject,” Journal of American History 89, 1 (June 2002): 17–53; Ann Curthoys, Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers (Sydney: Allen
texts to make a preliminary exploration of Indigenous strategic responses to settler exclusions and to consider the discourses of self, race, and gender they produced in the process. On the one hand, there are the relatively well-known publications of the two Anishinabe (Ojibway) Methodists who published books in the period, Peter Jones and George Copway. On the other hand, there are the speeches and written addresses delivered by representatives of the Anishinabeg and other Indigenous groups in