Firekeepers of the twenty-first century : First Nations women chiefs (McGill-Queen's Native and northern series)

Type

Book

Authors

Cora Voyageur

ISBN 10

077353217X

ISBN 13

9780773532175

Tags

Indigenous leadership -- Canada, Indigenous women -- Canada -- Biography, Indigenous women civic leaders -- Canada -- Biography, Indigenous peoples of North America -- Canada -- Politics and government, Women -- Canada -- Biography

Abstract

"Presents lives of sixty-four women chiefs who have assumed the traditionally male role of elected First Nations leadership. This book also presents the colonial histories behind the issues that contemporary Aboriginal communities struggle with and delineates the resulting leadership dilemmas for chiefs."--Amazon.

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