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Cacicas

Cacicas

The Indigenous Women Leaders of Spanish America, 1492–1825

Edited by Margarita R. Ochoa and Sara V. Guengerich

This volume showcases colonial cacicas as historical subjects who constructed their consciousness around their place, whether symbolic or geographic, and articulated their own unique identities. It expands our understanding of the significant influence these women exerted—within but also well beyond the native communities of Spanish America.
 
 

The Girl Who Dared to Defy

The Girl Who Dared to Defy

Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver

by Jane Little Botkin

Setting Jane’s story within the wider context of early-twentieth-century class struggles and the women’s suffrage movement, The Girl Who Dared to Defy paints a fascinating—and ultimately heartbreaking—portrait of one woman’s courageous fight for equality.
 

In League Against King Alcohol

In League Against King Alcohol

Native American Women and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1874–1933

by Thomas J. Lappas

Lappas’s work places Native women at the center of the temperance story, showing how they used a women’s national reform organization to move their own goals and objectives forward. Subtly but significantly they altered the welfare and status of American Indian communities in the early twentieth century.
 

Marie Mason Potts

Marie Mason Potts

The Lettered Life of a California Indian Activist

by Terri A. Castaneda

Potts’s voluminous correspondence documents her steadfast conviction that California Indians deserved just compensation for their stolen ancestral lands, a decent standard of living, the right to practice their traditions, and political agency in their own affairs. Drawing extensively from this trove of writings, Castaneda privileges Potts’s own voice in the telling of her story and offers a valuable history of California Indians in the twentieth century.
 

A Life on Fire

A Life on Fire

Oklahoma's Kate Barnard

by Connie Cronley

In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (1875–1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907—almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States.

This Land Is Herland

This Land Is Herland

Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s

Edited by Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin

Underscoring the diversity of women’s experiences, the editors and contributors provide fresh and engaging perspectives on the western roots of gendered activism in Oklahoma. This volume expands and enhances our understanding of the complexities of western women’s history.
 

America’s Best Female Sharpshooter

America's Best Female Sharpshooter

The Rise and Fall of Lillian Frances Smith

by Julia Bricklin

Drawing on family records, press accounts, interviews, and numerous other sources, historian Julia Bricklin peels away the myths that enshroud Smith’s fifty-year career. Known as “The California Huntress” before she was ten years old, Smith was a professional sharpshooter by the time she reached her teens, shooting targets from the back of a galloping horse in Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West.

Hide, Wood, and Willow

Hide, Wood, and Willow

Cradles of the Great Plains Indians

by Deanna Tidwell Broughton

Despite decades of political and social upheaval among Plains tribes, the significance of the cradle endures. Today, a baby can still be found wrapped up and wide-eyed, supported by a baby board. With its blend of stunning full-color images and detailed information, this book is a fitting tribute to an important and ongoing tradition among indigenous cultures.

Colonial Intimacies

Colonial Intimacies

Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769–1885

by Erika Perez

In Colonial Intimacies, Erika Pérez probes everyday relationships, encounters, and interactions to show how intimate choices about marriage, social networks, and godparentage were embedded in larger geopolitical concerns.
 

Listening to Rosita

Listening to Rosita

The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955

by Mary Ann Villarreal

In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks answers by pursuing the story of a small group of Tejana singers and entrepreneurs in Corpus Christi, Houston, and San Antonio—the “Texas Triangle”—during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately she recovers a social world and cultural landscape in central south Texas where Mexican American women negotiated the shifting boundaries of race and economics to assert a public presence.

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