#NotYourPrincess voices of Native American women

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. #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native...

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Other Authors: Leatherdale, Mary Beth (Editor), Charleyboy, Lisa (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Toronto ; Berkeley : Annick Press Ltd., [2017]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Shawl of memory's embrace / Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon (Cree/Innu-Montagnais/Dene/Metis)
  • The ties that bind us
  • Tear / Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
  • Blankets of shame / Maria Campbell (Metis)
  • Two braids / Rosanna Deerchild (Cree)
  • My parents' pain / Madelaine McCallum (Cree/Métis)
  • #LittleSalmonWoman / Lianne Charlie (Tagé Cho Hudän)
  • Reclaiming indigenous women's rights / Nahanni Fontaine (Anishinaabe)
  • A tale of two Winonas / Winona Linn (Maliseet)
  • Leaks / Leanne Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
  • My grandmother Sophia / Saige Mukash (Cree)
  • In her words / Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe) & Jen VanStrander (Western Band of Cherokee)
  • It could have been me
  • Falling / Natanya Ann Pulley (Navajo)
  • I don't want to be afraid / Imajyn Cardinal (Cree/Dene)
  • She is riding / Joanne Arnott (Métis)
  • Onto the Red Road / Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota)
  • The things we taught our daughters / Helen Knott (Dane Zaa/Cree)
  • Freedom in the fog / Zoey Roy (Cree/Dene/Métis)
  • It could have been me / Patty Stonefish (Lakota)
  • Honor song / Gwen Benaway (Anishinaabe/Métis)
  • In her words / Gloria Larocque Campbell Moses (Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Northern Alberta) & Nathalie Bertin (Métis)
  • I am not your princess
  • A conversation with a massage therapist / Francine Cunningham (Cree/Métis)
  • We are not a costume / Jessica Deer (Mohawk)
  • The invisible Indians / Shelby Lisk (Mohawk)
  • What's there to take back? / Tiffany Midge (Hunkpapa Lakota)
  • Why not Indians? / DeLanna Studi (Cherokee)
  • Stereotype this / Melanie Fey (Diné)
  • Real NDNZ / Pamela J. Peters (Navajo)
  • I am the only American Indian / Cecilia Rose LaPointe (Ojibway/Métis)
  • In her words / Hazel Hedgecoke (Sioux/Hunkpapa/Wendat/Métis/Cherokee/Creek) & Tanaya Winder (Duckwater Shoshone)
  • Pathfinders
  • When I have a daughter / Ntawnis Piapot (Piapot Cree Nation)
  • Defender of Mother Earth / AnnaLee Rain Yellowhammer (Hunkpapa/Standing Rock Sioux)
  • Digital smoke signals / Various
  • Living their dreams / Shoni Schimmel (Umatilla), September Big Crow (Tsuu T'ina Nation), Ashton Locklear (Lumbee), Brigitte Lacquette (Ojibwe)
  • Good medicine / Janet Smylie (Cree/Métis)
  • More than meets the eye / Kelly Edzerza-Bapty (Tahltan) and Claire Anderson (Tlingit)
  • Baby-girlz-gotta-Mustang / Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota)
  • "Dear Past Self" / Isabella Fillspipe (Oglala Lakota)
  • In her words / Adrianne Chalepah (Kiowa/Apache) & Lee Maracle (Stó:lō Nation)
  • Little sister / Tasha Spillett (Cree).
  • Illustrations including artwork and photographs:
  • RedWoman /
  • by Aza E. Abe (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe)
  • Transform /
  • by Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation)
  • [Untitled] /
  • artwork by Wakeah Jhane (Comanche/Blackfoot/Kiowa)
  • Enrollment /
  • by Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath/Modoc)
  • [Untitled] /
  • illustration by Danielle Daniel (Métis)
  • Resilient /
  • by Sierra Edd (Diné)
  • Tagé Cho (Big River) /
  • by Lianne Marie Leda Charlie (Tagé Cho Hudän)
  • Morning Star /
  • by Rayna Hernandez (Lakota)
  • Actress Imajyn Cardinal in "The Saver"
  • Photos of Zoey Roy /
  • by Tenille Campbell (Dene, English River Nation/Métis) of Sweetmoon Photography
  • We are sacred /
  • by Chief Lady Bird (Anishinaabe)
  • [Untitled] /
  • illustration by Karlene Harvey (Tsilhqot'in/Carrier/Okanagan)
  • [Untitled] /
  • illustration by Chief Lady Bird (Anishinaabe)
  • DeLanna Studi playing Kiona Stetson in the short film Blessed
  • Identity of stripes and stars /
  • by Serra Edd (Diné)
  • Shayna Jackson (Dakota/Cree) channeling Audrey Hepburn
  • Deja Jones (Eastern Shoshone) channeling Ava Gardner
  • Memories /
  • by Aura Last (Oneida)
  • Portrait /
  • by Sierra Edd (Diné)
  • [Untitled] /
  • illustration by Chief Lady Bird (Anishinaabe)
  • [Untitled] /
  • illustration by Julie Flett (Cree/Métis).