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Format:
Book (regular print)
Title:
#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
Other title(s):
Not your princess
ISBN:
9781554519583

9781554519576
Publication:
Toronto ; Berkeley : Annick Press Ltd., [2017]
Physical Description:
109 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Contents:
[Escape] / Leanne Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg) -- Foreword / Lisa Charleyboy (Tsilhqot'in - Tsi Del First Nation) -- 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) -- Contributors -- Credits -- Acknowledgments.

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).
Summary:
"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 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Reading Level:
Ages 12-17.

Young Adult.

910L Lexile.
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