Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface Marlene Brant Castellano
Acknowledgments
Introduction Carol Williams
1. Aboriginal Women and Work across the 49th Parallel: Historical Antecedents and New Challenges Joa
2. Making a Living: Anishinaabe Women in Michigan's Changing Economy Alice Littlefield
3. Procuring Passage: Southern Australian Aboriginal Women and the Early Maritime Industry of Sealin
4. The Contours of Agency: Women's Work, Race, and Queensland's Indentured Labor Trade Tracey Baniva
5. From "Superabundance" to Dependency: Women Agriculturalists and the Negotiation of Colonialism a-
6. "We Were Real Skookum Women”: The shishalh Economy and the Logging Industry on the Pacific Northw
7. Unraveling the Narratives of Nostalgia: Navajo Weavers and Globalization Kathy M’Closkey
8. Labor and Leisure in the "Enchanted Summer Land": Anishinaabe Women's Work and the Growth of Wisc
9. Nimble Fingers and Strong Backs: First Nations and Métis Women in Fur Trade and Rural Economies S
10. Northfork Mono Women's Agricultural Work, "Productive Coexistence," and Social Well-Being in tha
11. Diverted Mothering among American Indian Domestic Servants, 1920-1940 Margaret D. Jacobs
12. Charity or Industry? American Indian Women and Work Relief in the New Deal Era Colleen O'Neill
13. "An Indian Teacher among Indians": Native Women As Federal Employees Cathleen D. Cahill
14. "Assaulting the Ears of Government": The Indian Homemakers' Clubs and the Maori Women's Welfare
15. Politically Purposeful Work: Ojibwe Women's Labor and Leadership in Postwar Minneapolis Brenda J
16. Maori Sovereignty, Black Feminism, and the New Zealand Trade Union Movement Cybèle Locke
17. Beading Lesson Beth H. Piatote
Contributors
Index