American Protestantism and United States Indian Policy, 1869-1882

a Canadian Métis.These chapters are organized around the three themes that the authors see as central to these women's lives: tradition and its contact with white culture, acculturation, and a return to tradition.As the individual memoirs illustrate these various stages, they also demonstrate the strength and endurance of many Indian women.This study is pathbreaking in the sense that seldom, if ever, have the writings of American Indian women been regarded as worthy of notice, much less of study.Because, beginning with the early observations of European explorers.Native American women have been seen as inferior and debased, the power and prestige actually held by them has been overlooked.The fact that American Indian women did indeed play significant roles within their societies is one reason that their memoirs deserve recognition.According to Bataille and Sands, another reason that these stories merit serious study is their creative nature.Combining the Indian oral and white written traditions, these chronicles are personal reminiscences based on fact with inventiveness which stems from the literary skills of the Indian woman and her translator, recorder, or editor, a combination termed "bicultural composite authorship" here.The book's many contributions to women's history and American Indian history are capped by an extensive annotated bibliography.Overall, it is a work that should encourage additional scholarship in a long-neglected area

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