silman janet editor (2 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs Ilustrador. Later Printing. SUBTITLED : ` Aboriginal Women Speak Out ' . The map ahead of the introduction shows the western edge of New Brunswick. There, a few miles removed from the United States, lies Tobique Indian Reserve 20. It is split in half by Indian Brook. Read more about : Tobique Women, dance-hall, grandmother, Indian status, Gookum, Andrew Laporte, Eva Saulis, legislated sexual discrimination, and Supreme Court of Canada. These 253 pages - includes chronology at the back - tell the life stories of a dozen plus women fighting for their traditional rights. Each contributor has a b/w photo portrait - Glenna Perley and Cheryl Bear among them. Cond : Paper wrapper is salmon orange in colour. Black lettering. Group photo by Stephen Homer of the contributors on cover. Colours bright, binding tight. Very light soiling. No tears. No names. Minimal wear. Quote (p. 172) : " After the band office burned down, things were about the same until Dave Perley got in as chief in 1983. Some women got houses, and we got it so that houses were in bioth the husband's and the wife's names. The women were still struggling, though. If you'd go up to the band office and ask for ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. 253 pages. "A book really telling our story would offer different things to different people. Indian women, who read it would say, 'Why, if they could do that - accomplish that - then we can too.' To white women and others, it would be an education: they would see what life on a reserve is like for women. They would see what all our protesting has been about." - Glenna Perley to Editor. Bit of high-lighting else unmarked and clean with very light wear. Attractive copy.