Dakota women's work : creativity, culture, and exile / Colette A. Hyman.
2012
E99.D1 H96 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Dakota women's work : creativity, culture, and exile / Colette A. Hyman.
Author
Hyman, Colette A., 1958-
ISBN
9780873518505 pbk. alk. paper
0873518500 pbk. alk. paper
0873518500 pbk. alk. paper
Publication Details
St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
240 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number
E99.D1 H96 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
978.004/975243
Summary
"Ornately decorated objects created by Dakota women--cradleboards, clothing, animal skin containers--served more than a utilitarian function. They tell the story of colonization, genocide, and survival. Colette Hyman traces the changes in the lives of Dakota women, starting before the arrival of whites and covering the fur trade years, the years of treaties and shrinking lands, the brutal time of removal, starvation, and shattered families after 1862, and then the transition to reservation life, when missionaries and government agents worked to turn the Dakota into Christian farmers. The decorative work of Dakota women reflected all of this: native organic dyes and quillwork gave way to beading and needlework, items traditionally decorated for family gifts were also produced to sell to tourists and white collectors, work on cradleboards and animal skin bags shifted to the ornamenting of hymnals and the creation of star quilts."-- From publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction. Women, work, and survival
1. Work, art, and Dakota subsistence
2. The fur trade and the treaty of 1837
3. Gender and resistance
4. Separate survival
5. Dakota tradition at Santee and Flandreau
6. Work, gender, and the Dakota church
Epilogue. Indian renaissance and Dakota women's art.
1. Work, art, and Dakota subsistence
2. The fur trade and the treaty of 1837
3. Gender and resistance
4. Separate survival
5. Dakota tradition at Santee and Flandreau
6. Work, gender, and the Dakota church
Epilogue. Indian renaissance and Dakota women's art.