Women Of The Native Struggle: Portraits and Testimony of Native American Women - The Library of the American Indian

New York: Orion Books - A Division of Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition First Printing Stated . Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 10" x 9 . Farley, Ronnie - Cover Photography. 258 Pages. Tight square book with no marks or stamps. Interior text and illustration pages are flawless. When I'm dead and gone, I want to leave something. I want my granddaughter to be sitting someday talking like I talk about my grandmother. That's the kind of legacy I want to leave. I want my great-granddaughters, great-grandsons too, to say my great-grandma was a fighter. She did this and she did that to protect the land, to protect the culture, to protect the language, to maintain what we have left. The women have self-determination. The backbone of any struggle is the women. Ronnie Farley has combined evocative portraits of Native American women with their own reflections on womanhood and what it means to be a Native American. The result is a startlingly honest and often poetic work. The women within these pages defy stereotype: they are mothers, activists, artists, environmentalists, and community leaders. Whether living on reservations or in cities, they have struggled to preserve an ancient culture and a land under siege. For their daughters and ours, these women stand fast in the face of a world that views everything from forests to spirituality as disposable goods.