In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women\'s history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women.
Each one recounts the experiences of women from vastly different cultural traditions--the hunting and gathering of Kumeyaay culture.
From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries.
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women\'s history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women