|
Denver NLAPW hosts and co-sponsors
special events and
projects throughout the year. We have co-sponsored a program by Colorado
Poet Laureate Mary Crow with Denver Women's Press Club and, in a joint
meeting with the Colorado Springs branch, hosted a program featuring
Chris Costner Sizemore, NLAPW member and author of The Three Faces
of Eve.
|
|
|
Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood
Indian Women Seeking Their Paths
by Nancy M.
Peterson
From Caxton Press, 312 Main Street, Caldwell, Idaho.
www.caxtonpress.com
ISBN 0-87004-450-8, 264 pages, illustrated, index, $16.95. |
Click on image to see full size |
|
Denver NLAPW Branch Member Nancy M. Peterson tells the stories
of twelve mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of
their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their
white fathers, fought to find their identities in a rapidly
changing world.
In an era when most white women had limited opportunities
outside the home, these mixed-blood women often became
nationally recognized leaders in the fight for Native American
rights. They took the tools and training whites provided and
used them to help their people. They found differing paths --
medicine, music, crafts, the classroom, the lecture hall, the
stage, the written word -- and walked strong and tall.
These women did far more than survive; they reached a hand to
help their people find a place in a hard, new future. |
|
