Cutright, Patricia J.
Summary: "Twelve biographies of Indigenous women who, as modern-day warriors, have infused their communities with strength and leadership. The women overcame unimaginable hardships--racial and gender discrimination, abuse, and extreme poverty--only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education, and community activism"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation Native Voices 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 CUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 973 CUTPhilips, Katruna
Summary: "Series continuation, biographies of women in history"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 PHICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 PHISummary: "Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press Ltd. 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 970 NOTSummary: From the Publisher: Women lighthouse keepers, fur traders, cooks on sailing vessels, missionaries, and fearless travelers all wrote of their lives on the Great Lakes, both publicly and in quiet testimonies such as letters, logbooks, and diaries. Their narratives, which span the centuries from 1789 to the present, are now collected in this anthology. Compiled in response to historical accounts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper Press 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 WOM1 available in Local Author, Call number: 977 WOM
Mankiller, Wilma Pearl
Summary: "Nineteen prominent Native artists, educators, and activisits share their candid and often profound thoughts on what it means to be a Native American woman in the early 21st century. Their stories are rare and often intimate glimpses of women who have made a conscious decision to live every day to its fullest and stand for something larger than themselves."--Pub. desc.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MANStarita, Joe
Summary: "On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree, becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history--thirty-one years before women could vote and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. By age twenty-six, this fragile but indomitable Native woman acquired 1,244 patients scattered across 1,350 square miles of rolling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAFLESCHE STASorell, Traci
Summary: The descendant of Cherokee ancestors who had been forced to walk the Trail of Tears, Wilma Mankiller experienced her own forced removal from the land she grew up on as a child. As she got older and learned more about the injustices her people had faced, she dedicated her life to instilling pride in Native heritage and reclaiming Native rights. She went on to become the first woman Principal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MANHarjo, Joy
Summary: Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, grounded...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARJO, JOY HARWeller, Theresa Lynn
Summary: "This book tells a story of the Native and Metis inhabitants of Mackinac Island based on the people (mostly women) enumerated in the Agatha Biddle Band of 1870. Theresa Weller provides a genealogy of the Band members and their families. Adding to their stories, she has provided images, stories, and newspaper accounts to provide a larger picture of people in a time and place-Mackinac Island in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.37749 WELHarjo, Joy
Summary: "Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her 'poet-warrior' road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice. Harjo listens to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 HARJO, JOY HARCapaldi, Gina.
Summary: Zitkala-Š̌̌̌a finds that she can sing through her music, but also by writing stories and giving speeches and being an activist for Native American rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Native CapaldiMailhot, Terese Marie
Summary: "Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAILHOT, TERESE MARIE MAIGable, Mona
Summary: In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after the pregnant woman disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna₂s, but she would not be found until her body was pulled from the Red River days later. This horrifying and unimaginable crime...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.488 GableHarjo, Joy
Summary: In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9 HARGable, Mona
Summary: "In the vein of Yellow Bird and Highway of Tears, a powerful and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of the young and pregnant Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Indigenous women in America and the country's deplorable inaction. In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 GABJensen, Toni
Summary: "A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns:As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JENSEN, TONI JENHogan, Linda.
Summary: In this book, the author recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant, her love affair at age fifteen with an older man, the legacy of alcoholism, the troubled history of her adopted daughters, and her own physical struggles since a recent horse accident. She shows how historic and emotional pain are passed down through generations, blending personal history with stories...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2001
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 Hogan 2001Puri, Sunita
Summary: "A heart-wrenching and provocative memoir about how the essential parts of one young woman's early life--her mother's work as a surgeon and her spiritual practice--led her to become a doctor and to question the premise that medicine exists to prolong life at all costs. Dr. Sunita Puri's parents grew up in urban India, in extreme poverty. Yet they managed not only to reach America, but her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Harjo, Joy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HARHungry Wolf, Beverly.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill 1982