The Women's Warrior Society

(54) This likely group of women warriors at their tribal library are portrayed as wolves who sniff and lick the paper trails of racist literature, the military recruitment pamphlets at the library's entrance, and who poke fun at the county newspaper, identifying the so-called news writing as &q...

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Published in:American Indian Quarterly 2009, Vol.33 (2), p.280-282
Main Author: Singer, Beverly R.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Algonquian languages
Asian Americans
Death
Females
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Libraries
Literature
Native North Americans
News Writing
Public Schools
Racism
Tribes
Women
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Summary:(54) This likely group of women warriors at their tribal library are portrayed as wolves who sniff and lick the paper trails of racist literature, the military recruitment pamphlets at the library's entrance, and who poke fun at the county newspaper, identifying the so-called news writing as "familiar shit" being thrown at them repeatedly. Writer Lois Beardslee is Ogitchidaakwe, an Ojibwe warrior woman who is making tobacco ties with words that sneak up on you, as do her warriors when they take deliberate actions, like the mom who used a permanent marker on a library book to write on the cover: THIS BOOK IS BAD FOR INDIANS.
ISSN:0095-182X
1534-1828
1534-1828
DOI:10.1353/aiq.0.0046