A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941 indigenous language books so painful they can break

so painful they can break your heart

who have lived there for generations

Picking winners is just meant to be a means to an end—Cree's goal is to make his living playing the blues

poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest

A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941 indigenous language books so painful they can breakOne hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women's history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they eventually claimed it as their own field. From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie Debo, the magnitude of their