Edmonia Lewis(1844-1907): An American Black Woman Sculptor Trapped in Structures Harder Than Marble
Edmonia Lewis had two problems. One: that she was not white and two: that she was not male. She...
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Joy Harjo: The Knowing (Muscogee (Creek)-American Woman Writer, b. 1951)
I was elated when I discovered that the Library of Congress had appointed Joy Harjo to a second...
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Ella Deloria’s (1889-1971) Waterlily: Giving Voice to Dakota Women and their ways of Kinship
In her 1947 novel Waterlily, Ella Cara Deloria, also Anpétu Wašté Win, one of her Dakota names...
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Mabel McKay (1907-1993): “Dreamer” and Master Basket Weaver of the Northern California Pomo Indians
It’s hard to know what might have happened to Mabel McKay if her grandmother Sarah had not made it...
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Holding Space for the Past and the Future: Indigenous Woman Writer Velma Wallis and the Stories of the Gwich’in People of Alaska
Velma Wallis’ books take the reader directly and swiftly into another world, a land of ice and...
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Polly Coppinger’s Son: Osceola,”Master Spirit of the Seminole Nation” (1804-1838)
National Indigenous Peoples Day is being celebrated across the United States this week. Malinda...
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