#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. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess 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, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.
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#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. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess 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, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.
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#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

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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, #NotYourPrincess 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, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781554519576
Publisher: Annick Press, Limited
Publication date: 09/12/2017
Pages: 112
Sales rank: 173,386
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile: 910L (what's this?)
Age Range: 12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Lisa Charleyboy (Tsilhqot'in) is Editor-In-Chief of Urban Native Magazine, which focuses on pop culture with an Indigenous twist. She is also the host of CBC Radio’s New Fire. She lives in Vancouver.

Mary Beth Leatherdale writes, edits, and consults on books, magazines, and digital resources for children and youth.

Table of Contents

OPENING POEM

shawl of memory’s embrace

by Clear Wind Blows Over The Moon (Cree, Innu-Montagnais, Dene, Metis)

Section 1 – The Ties That Bind Us

POEM

Tear

by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)

SHORT ESSAY

Blankets of Shame

by Maria Campbell (Metis)

POEM

two braids

Rosanna Deerchild (Cree)

ART

Apsáalooke Feminist series

By Wendy Red Star (Crow)

SHORT ESSAY

Native American Women — The Original Feminists

By Nahanni Fontaine (Anishinaabe)

ART

The Side Dancer’s Gift

Marika Echachis Swan (Tla-oqui-aht Nation)

SPOKEN WORD

Leaks

by Leanne Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)

VISUAL SCRAPBOOK

My Grandmother Sophia

By Saige Mukash (Cree)

Section 2 – It Could Have Been Me

PROSE POEM

Falling

By Natanya Ann Pulley (Navajo)

SPOKEN WORD

When Angels Speak of Love

Tanaya Winder (Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, Pyramid Lake Palute

ART

Nitewake:non “the place where I come from”

Melissa General (Mohawk/Oneida)

POEM

She is riding

Joanne Arnott (Metis)

ART

On the Red Road

By Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota)

SPOKEN WORD

The Things We Taught Our Daughters

By Helen Knott (Dana Zaa /Cree)

MEMOIR

Freedom in the Fog

By Zondra Roy (Cree/Dene/Metis)

VISUAL SCRAPBOOK

It Could Have Been Me

By Patricia Stonefish (Lakota)

Section 3: I Am Not Your Princess

POEM

A Conversation with a Massage Therapist

By Francine Cunningham (Cree/ Metis)

PHOTO SERIES

The Invisible Indians

By Shelby Lisk (Mohawk from Tyendinaga)

SPOKEN WORD

Grey Owl

By Winona Linn (Meskwaki)

ESSAY

What’s there to take back?

Tiffany Midge (Standing Rock Sioux)

POEM

Stereotype This

Melanie Fey (Dine)

ART

Real NDNZ

Pamela J. Peters (Navajo)

VISUAL SCRAPBOOK

I Am the Only American Indian

By Cecelia Rose LaPointe (Ojibway/Metis)

Section 4: Pathfinders

POEM

When I have a Daughter

by Ntawnis Piapot (Piapot Cree Nation)

PROFILE

Defender of Mother Earth

Teen Activist Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer

TWITTER COLLAGE

Various

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Fala

Elizabeth LaPensee (Metis)

INTERVIEW

Dr. Janet Smylie (Metis)

PHOTO ESSAY

Living Their Dreams — Native American Athletes

SPOKEN WORD

Etuaptmumk

Rebecca Thomas (Miq’mak)

VISUAL SCRAPBOOK

Dear Past Self

Isabelle Rilispipe

CLOSING POEM

Little Sister

Tasha Spillet
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