American Indian grandmothers : traditions and transitions

Schweitzer, Marjorie M. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0826320775 (cloth)
ISBN: 9780826320773 (cloth)
ISBN: 0826320783 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780826320780 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
viii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-232) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Grandmother : a definition / KoKomthena -- A Shawnee creation story -- Introduction / Marjorie M. Schweitzer -- Thinking good : the teachings of Navajo grandmothers / Karen Ritts Benally -- Give-and-take : Navajo grandmothers and the role of craftswomen / Ann Lane Hedlund -- Coyote looks at grandmother : Puget Sound Salish grandmothers in myth and message / Pamela Amoss -- Discontinuities in the statuses of Puget Sound grandmothers / Bruce G. Miller -- Being a grandmother in the Tewa world / Sue-Ellen Jacobs -- The two aspects of Hopi grandmotherhood / Alice Schlegel -- Otoe-Missouria grandmothers : linking past, present, and future / Marjorie M. Schweitzer -- Powwow princesses and gospelettes : cross-generational enculturation in American Indian families / Joan Weibel-Orlando -- Daughters of Church Rock / Patricia McCabe -- Conclusions / Marjorie M. Schweitzer.