Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century: First Nations Women Chiefs

by Cora Voyageur

Overview

Beginning with Elsie Knott, the first female chief in Canada, Cora Voyageur presents the lives of sixty-four of the ninety women chiefs who have assumed the traditionally male role of elected First Nations leadership. Using a range of qualitative research strategies, surveys, participant observation, interviews, and discussions with focus groups, Voyageur presents the colonial histories behind the issues that contemporary Aboriginal communities struggle with and delineates the resulting leadership dilemmas for chiefs, while also articulating a story that is unique to First Nations women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780773577541
Publisher:	McGill-Queens University Press
Publication date:	03/28/2008
Series:	McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies , #51
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Cora Voyageur is a Dene woman who teaches sociology at the University of Calgary.