Empowerment of North American Indian girls ritual expressions at puberty /

Main Author: Markstrom, Carol A.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]
Physical Description: xvii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Contextual and methodological considerations
  • Contemporary youth concerns in historical perspective
  • North American Indian perspectives on human development
  • Menstruation, cosmology, and feminism
  • Historical overview of coming-of-age practices
  • The Apache Sunrise Dance
  • Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Dance
  • Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa puberty customs
  • Broader perspectives on coming-of-age.
  • Contextual and methodological considerations
  • Contemporary youth concerns in historical perspective
  • North American Indian perspectives on human development
  • Menstruation, cosmology, and feminism
  • Historical overview of coming-of-age practices
  • Apache Sunrise Dance
  • Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Dance
  • Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa puberty customs
  • Broader perspectives on coming-of-age.