Sacajawea and Her Sisters: Images and Native Women
Historicized images of First Nations women and the cultural narratives they tell are deeply entrenched in North American popular culture. We construct identities through our identification with narratives that we see, hear, and tell and the ideological messages they carry. These appropriated, commo...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/195859 2023-05-15T16:14:22+02:00 Sacajawea and Her Sisters: Images and Native Women Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie 2021-10-21 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195859 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v23i1.195859 eng eng UBC Faculty of Education http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195859/191839 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195859 doi:10.14288/cjne.v23i1.195859 Copyright (c) 2021 Canadian Journal of Native Education Canadian Journal of Native Education; Vol. 23 No. 1 (1999) 0710-1481 10.14288/cjne.v23i1 culture women info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2021 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v23i1.195859 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v23i1 2023-01-04T07:51:00Z Historicized images of First Nations women and the cultural narratives they tell are deeply entrenched in North American popular culture. We construct identities through our identification with narratives that we see, hear, and tell and the ideological messages they carry. These appropriated, commodified representations of Native women circulate in the politics of difference, confining the past and constructing the future. But the identities of First Nations women are also built in the stories of grandmothers, mothers, and sisters. In narratives of Native traditionalism and Aboriginal experience, First Nations women situate, reappropriate, and transform the past as they empower their own futures. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) |
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Historicized images of First Nations women and the cultural narratives they tell are deeply entrenched in North American popular culture. We construct identities through our identification with narratives that we see, hear, and tell and the ideological messages they carry. These appropriated, commodified representations of Native women circulate in the politics of difference, confining the past and constructing the future. But the identities of First Nations women are also built in the stories of grandmothers, mothers, and sisters. In narratives of Native traditionalism and Aboriginal experience, First Nations women situate, reappropriate, and transform the past as they empower their own futures. |
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Sacajawea and Her Sisters: Images and Native Women |
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Sacajawea and Her Sisters: Images and Native Women |
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UBC Faculty of Education |
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2021 |
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Canadian Journal of Native Education; Vol. 23 No. 1 (1999) 0710-1481 10.14288/cjne.v23i1 |
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