Indigenous women -- Canada -- History, Indigenous women, Women -- Canada -- History, Women 

"Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of Aboriginal women from the late-eighteenth century to the mid -twentieth century. They have often been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individual women - a trader, a performer, a non-human woman - while others examine cohorts of women - wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record to and standard representations of women, drawing also on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories."--Amazon. 

ix, 422 pages : maps, facsimiles, illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm 

Available as an ebook

Contents:Lifelines : searching for Aboriginal women of the Northwest and Borderlands / Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack
pt. 1. Transatlantic connections
Recovered identities : four Metis artists in nineteenth-century Rupert's Land / Susan Berry
Lost women : Native wives in Orkney and Lewis / Patricia A. McCormack
Christina Massan's beadwork and the recovery of a fur trade family history / Alison K. Brown, with Christina Massan & Alison Grant
pt. 2. Cultural mediators
Repositioning the missionary : Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal women in Catholic missions of the Northwest / Lesley Erickson
The "accomplished" Odille Quintal Morison : Tsimshian cultural intermediary of Metlakatla, British Columbia / Maureen L. Atkinson
Obscured obstetrics : indigenous midwives in Western Canada / Kristin Burnett
pt. 3. In the Borderlands
Sophie Morigeau : free trader, free woman / Jean Barman
The Montana memories of Emma Minesinger : windows on the family, work, and boundary culture of a borderlands woman / Sarah Carter
pt. 4. The spirit world
Searching for Catherine Auger : the forgotten wife of the Wihtikow (Windigo) / Nathan D. Carlson
Pakwaciskwew : a reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman / Susan Elaine Gray
pt. 5. Challenging and crafting representations
Frances Nickawa : "a gifted interpreter of the poetry of her race" / Jennifer S.H. Brown
Blazing her own trail : Anahareo's rejection of Euro-Canadian stereotypes / Kristin L. Gleeson.