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Books on: indian women

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American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives

Book by Gretchen M. Bataille, Kathleen Mullen Sands; University of Nebraska Press, 1987

Subjects:

Indian Women--North America--Biography, Indian Women--North America--Biography--Bibliography, Indian Women--North America--Biography--History And Criticism, Women--Biography--History And Criticism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...in a study of Plains Indian women, cites examples of the...within tribal society. Indian womens autobiographies...into the lives of these women. In the following chapters...by an American Indian woman and edited by someone...written by American Indian women who have found autobiography...
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Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915

Book by Glenda Riley; University of New Mexico Press, 1984

Subjects:

Frontier And Pioneer Life--West (U.S.), Indians Of North America--West (U.S.)--History, West (U.S.)--Race Relations, Women Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Attitudes--History--19th Century, Women Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Attitudes--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...superficial and biased description of Indian society, customs, and culture. Indian women received even less attention from observers than did Indians generally. Of course, as...under the generic label of "Indian." When they did refer specifically...
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Women in American Indian Society

Book by Rayna Green; Chelsea House, 1992

Subjects:

Indian Women--North America, Indians Of North America--Social Life And Customs, Women--North America--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Americas with the Indian woman, they understood very...the importance of the women within these societies...historical importance of Indian women, for very little...of a group. Non-Indians who documented history...term for all Indian women, Algonkian or not. Both Indian men and women have...incomplete representation of Indian cultures in written...American history, the Indians played the roles of...
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Kiowa: A Woman Missionary in Indian Territory

Book by Isabel Crawford; University of Nebraska Press, 1998

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Baptists--Missions--Oklahoma--History, Crawford, Isabel--1865-1961, Kiowa Indians--Missions, Women Missionaries--Oklahoma--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...load, when suddenly the wagon stopped and Zotom, the Indian driver, alighted and unhitched the unequally-yoked...everywhere barking an alarm that brought from tepee and tent Indian men, women and children, decked in their brightest and best...
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Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886-1900

Book by Karl Markus Kreis, Corinna Dally-Starna; University of Nebraska Press, 2007

Subjects:

Dakota Indians--History--Sources, Dakota Indians--Missions, Jesuits--Missions--South Dakota--History--Sources, Sisters Of St. Francis Of Penance And Christian Charity--Missions--South Dakota--History--Sources, South Dakota--History--Sources

Collections: History, Entire Library

honor for these poor Indian women to be able to speak in...one would take offense that women are acting as speakers at all...to have more respect for the women and the latter to have more...order. Several other Indian women, such as Magdalena Springt...Hail Gute Adlerin Good Eagle Woman, Luise Fliegt-vorbei Flies...

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Journal Articles on: indian women

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Tribal Courts' Failure to Protect Native American Women: A Reevaluation of the Indian Civil Rights Act

Journal article by Carla Christofferson; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 101, 1991

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Civil rights--Laws, regulations, etc., Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, Native American women--Laws, regulations, etc.

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...tribes believed that women has mystical power...Terrell, Indian Women of the Western Morning...The assertion that an Indian woman was an abject drudge...Robert H. Lowie, Indians of the Plains 96...The concept that woman was made from man is not found in Indian religion. Indians accept and adhere to...Brown, Iroquois Women: An Ethnohistoric...
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The Political Behavior of Indian American Women: Gendered and Generational Perspectives on Race, Immigration and Socio-Economic Status

Journal article by Shankar K. Prasad, Caroline M. Nordlund; Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 19, 2010

Subjects:

Indian Americans--Political activity, Political participation--Research, Women immigrants--Political activity

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...and businessmen and women, satisfying professional...8) The majority of Indians entering the United...privileged segments of Indian society. (9) They...the newly immigrating Indians prevented this group...startling eighty percent of women are Democrats, whereas...Democratic leanings of the Indian American community are...which indicate that Indians have increasingly contributed...
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Federal Indian Law and Violent Crime: Native Women and Children at the Mercy of the State

Journal article by Sarah Deer; Social Justice, Vol. 31, 2004

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Federal Tort Claims Act, Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, Native American children--Crimes against, Native American children--Social aspects, Native American women--Crimes against, Native American women--Social aspects, Social justice--Analysis, United States. Department of Justice--Laws, regulations and rules

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...the Rez: Keeping No Peace in Indian Country." Social Justice...Norrell, Brenda 2003 "Native Women Are Prey; Communities and...Native Women." News from Indian Country (December 29): 9...of Sovereignty: The Key to Indian Social Justice." Donald E...Tonnesen (eds.), American Indians: Social Justice and Public...
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Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country

Journal article by F. Todd Smith; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the...Todd Smith Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois...Most of the captives were women, many of whom formed relationships...of metis (mixed-blood) women who were deemed acceptable...a metis born of an Indian woman and a French father. Celadon...
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On the outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad

Journal article by Elleke Boehmer; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad (Book)--Book reviews

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...outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad...feminist author that Indian women have--like rabbits caught...in the blanket category of women and writing against oppression...her sweeping way about Indian women writers? Nothing more than...implies, it is usually the other woman and not Kakfa who is positioned...

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Magazine Articles on: indian women

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Saving India through Its Women: Sean Lang Tells of the Dufferin Fund, an Aristocratic Initiative Supported by Queen Victoria to Improve Medical Conditions, Particularly in Childbirth, for Indian Women in the Late 19th Century

Magazine article by Sean Lang; History Today, Vol. 55, September 2005

Subjects:

Fund raising--History, Fund raising--Political aspects, Indians (Asian people)--Care and treatment, Indians (Asian people)--History, Indians--Care and treatment, Indians--History, Women physicians--Donations, Women physicians--History, Women physicians--Training, Women--Care and treatment, Women--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the Ilbert Bill, to allow Indian magistrates to sit in cases...population at the idea of Indians sitting in judgement over...ultimately, to resign. Now Indians in their turn were outraged...issue of the medical needs of Indian women. According to Lady...suggested that medical aid for women was a subject to which I might...unrecorded, and since neither woman made any mention of it in...
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I, RIGOBERTA MENCHU: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

Magazine article by Greg Grandin, Francisco Goldman; The Nation, Vol. 268, February 8, 1999

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Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Book)

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...I, RIGOBERTA MENCHU: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. By Rigoberta...on the plight of Guatemalan Indians. Menchu was unsparing in...slaughter of thousands of Indians, including members of her...massacres, destroyed hundreds of Indian communities, killed as many...suffered by a great many Mayan women--Menchu had received an...
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No Going Back - Indian Immigrant Women Shape a New Identity

Magazine article by Meenal Pandya; World and I, Vol. 16, May 2001

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Indians (Asian people)--Behavior, Indians (Asian people)--United States, Indians in the United States--Behavior, Nooyi, Indra--Behavior

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...founded Manavi, an Indian womens organization...even the professional women are not immune to this...that of a professional woman who had been abused...marriages, its usually the women who make sacrifices...second-generation Indian woman and the former program...battered South Asian women in New York City, Vora...
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Indian Woman Receives Gallantry Award

Magazine article by Deepa Kandaswamy; Herizons, Vol. 25, Fall 2011

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Awards & honors, Heroism & heroes, India, Military officers, Mitali, Madhumita, Women

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Indian Woman Receives Gallantry Award by...Mitali has become the first woman in the Indian armed forces...members of Indias Self Employed Women Association (SEWA) who were...widows, as well as other Indian armed forces support personnel. In all, 19 people - seven Indians, an Italian diplomat, a...discussion of womens role in the Indian armed forces. Indian women...
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Money-lenders Bilk Indian Women

Magazine article by Deepa Kandaswamy; Herizons, Vol. 25, Summer 2011

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Bank fraud, India, Loans, Low income groups, Microfinance

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Money-lenders Bilk Indian Women by Deepa Kandaswamy Rajalakshmi Selvam...SHG loan system was successful for Indian women until loan institutions called...fully understand. Meanwhile, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the stress...

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Newspaper Articles on: indian women

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Indian-Born Women Return Home to Abort Girls - Claim

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), December 3, 2007

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Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Indian-Born Women Return Home to Abort Girls...some pregnant Indian-born women to return to India to abort...country and being used by some women living in England and Wales...undercover pregnant British Indian woman to several top doctors in...
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Brides Bound by Traditions; Indian Women, Families Carry Costly Commitment of Dowry

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 27, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Bound by Traditions; Indian Women, Families Carry...husband beat the woman senseless, then...The 30-year-old woman now sits in a stark...perpetuated on its women and unborn girls...first noticed the way women in her neighborhood...Then she read that a woman had been gang-raped...
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SURROGATE BABY EVERY 48 HOURS; WOMBS FOR HIRE: HOW INFERTILE COUPLES PAY INDIAN WOMEN [Pounds Sterling

Newspaper article; May 20, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...implanted in the wombs of Indian women. Dr Anita Soni, a...I deliver babies from Indian women for British couples...absolutely no exploitation of these women. It is really big money...help more white couples than Indians, who are still sceptical...Hospital where a 28-year-old Indian woman was giving birth to twins...
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Indian Woman Replacing Anthony on Dollar Coin

Newspaper article by Timothy Burn; The Washington Times, July 30, 1998

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Anthony, Susan B.

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Indian woman replacing Anthony on...depicting the young Indian woman who guided the Lewis and Clark...Sacajawea was the young Shoshone woman who joined the expedition...the committee to choose a woman or women, real or symbolic, for the...
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Congratulations! You Have a Surrogate Boy and Girl; Britons Are Paying Indian Women to Have Their Babies. Here, One Couple Tell of Their Journey to a Clinic in Mumbai - and How They Learned by Email That They Were the Parents of Twins

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 20, 2009

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Electronic mail systems, Email, Infants--Diseases, Twins

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Boy and Girl; Britons Are Paying Indian Women to Have Their Babies. Here, One...genetic offspring, created in an Indian laboratory by the fertilisation of...Britain considers the babies to be Indian," he explains. "So in effect...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: indian women

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Jemison, Mary

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was captured (1758) by a French and Indian War party, taken to Fort Duquesne, and given to two Seneca women, who adopted her. She was married twice...bore eight children. Known as the White Woman of the Genesee, Mary Jemison refused...Her story is told in a classic tale of "Indian-capture," J. E. Seavers Narrative...
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Kanpur

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...cession to the British in 1801 by the Nawab of Oudh. During the Indian Mutiny (1857), Nana Sahib, whose pension claim had been rejected, slaughtered the entire British garrison, including women and children. ____________________ Copyright...
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Pakistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...with 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for non-Muslims; all...History The northwest of the Indian subcontinent, which now constitutes...empire, heir to Alexanders Indian conquest, was checked by the...Although the northeast of the Indian subcontinent (now Bangladesh...
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Natives, North American

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and farmers; the women tended small plots...ancestors of the Pueblo Indians. They lived in...the fields, while women made fine polychrome...passage of the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory...Documents in American Indian History (1973...of North American Indians (20 vol., 1978...European and the Indian (1981); R. Thornton...
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Costume

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...starched white linen. Egyptian women first wore the kalasiris, a...1949) until the 1990s men and women of China wore dark-colored...clothing. Japanese men and women have widely adopted Western...antiquity been notable features of Indian garments. Bibliography See...

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