Madonna Thunder Hawk: Building Solidarity And Resistance Movement

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Identifications: Owl Woman is the daughter of White Thunder; a spiritual leader of the Cheyenne tribe (Abbott, Leonard, Noel, 2013, pp. 30). She married William Bent in 1835 and together they raised four children of their own. Owl Woman was an essential piece of history as she helped William run Bent’s Fort. Bent’s

Born in 1788, probable early 1790’s, in what is now known as the state of Idaho, she was born into an Agaidika, or “Salmon Eater,” tribe of Lemhi Shoshone between Kenny Creek and Agency Creek. She was one of the “Snake People” or Shodhone. Her name in Hidasta was Tsi-ki-ka-wi-as, “Bird Woman”. In Shoshone, her name means “Boat Pusher.” In 1800, when she was roughly twelve-years-old, she and several other girls were kidnapped during a raid by the Hidasta tribe, (also known as Minnentarees) in a battle that resulted in the death among the Shoshone of four men, four women, and several boys. Sacagawea and the other kidnapped girls were taken captive to the Hidasta village near present day Bismark, North Dakota, and Washburn North Dakota. Some time afterward, the French-Canadian fur trader Toussaint Charbonneau took thirteen-year-old Sacagawea and another young Shoshone named Otter

Terry Tempest Williams and Wangari Maathai are both very powerful women who devoted their lives to improving the world one step at a time. Williams, the author of Refuge, is a naturalist, a feminist, and a writer who brings such power into everything she touches. Her passion for change has brought so much goodness into the world. She has beat many obstacles, including her own struggle with herself, which to her is the same fight we have with nature, and finally accepting the outcome; whatever that may be unnatural, or natural, is the secret to life. While we read about what Terry Tempest Williams writes about her mother’s difficulties while struggling with cancer, we also have Wangari Maathai speaking about all the violence she faces in Kenya.

Third World Women’s Alliance (1971): DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Lynn Dumenil. Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents: 4th ed Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's,

Lives for Native Americans on reservations have never quite been easy. There are many struggles that most outsiders are completely oblivious about. In her book The Roundhouse, Louise Erdrich brings those problems to light. She gives her readers a feel of what it is like to be Native American by illustrating the struggles through the life of Joe, a 13-year-old Native American boy living on a North Dakota reservation. This book explores an avenue of advocacy against social injustices. The most observable plight Joe suffers is figuring out how to deal with the injustice acted against his mother, which has caused strife within his entire family and within

The Little River Band is full and rich in culture. “The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, a Michigan tribe that has survived to the present day despite the expansionist and assimilationist policies that nearly robbed it of its identity in the late nineteenth century”, explained James McClurken who published the book “Our People, Our Journey”. He then explains that they Little River Band was forced onto a reservation on the Pere Marquette and Manistee Rivers in 1858. The tribe had been pushed and shoved around for countless years and their culture was disintegrating. In fact, my boyfriend, Andrew, his grandmother, Margaret Chandler, was a strong and tough working representative that helped and pushed the people of their tribe for over fifty years to motivate them into action and stand up for their rights. Chandler is a known as a hero in the tribe, according to the book, she committed her life to the Little River Band to form the world better for future generations and worked to promote and salvage the culture of the tribe. She is the reason why the tribe had a “reaffirmation” in the 1990’s, according to the book, “Our People, Our Journey” by McClurken (2009). In 1994 The Little River Band was re-recognized by the federal government. Chandler is the reason why the tribe and the tribe’s culture is so astonishingly successful today.

In Lakota Woman, a biographical account of Mary Crow Dog, there is established a reoccurring theme centered around Native American women and their outlasting strength as they play their roles of wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters. Especially so in trying times, which Crow Dog illustrates, that have spanned for centuries and are as inescapable as they have ever been. Remarkable are her feats of bravery fueled by strength she’s derived from other influential women in her life and her love for her people and their traditions. Without a doubt, Native American women had and always will play a large role in keeping the ardor behind their fight for equality and justice lit. Whether it be physically, such as it was in Wounded Knee, spiritually, in their participation in keeping up rituals and religion, or traditionally, as they help uphold old values beloved by their people for centuries.

4) Who is the current Tribal Chairperson for the Muwekma, and why is this person considered controversial?

Across cultures and throughout history, women have experienced ongoing systemic oppression; and they have responded with progressive movements of protest and creative alternatives. Harriet Tubman in the fight against slavery: Fannie Lou Hamer for voting rights: Ella Baker and Mary White Ovington in the civil rights movement: Rosa Luxemburg in the German socialist movement: Winnie Mandela in the anti-apartheid movement: Puerto Rican independence leader and poet Lolita Lebron: and American Indian movement activists Anna Mae Aquash, Ingrid Washinawatok, and Winona LaDuke (Mink and Navarro). Women have pioneered in movements for labor rights, prison reform, reproductive rights and health, education, affordable housing, affirmative action and equal rights, human rights, and environmental safety. These women’s leadership styles span a range from soft to harsh, from wielding individual, hierarchical power to possessing a commitment to collectivism, and from identifying as “woman as caretaker of life” to woman as requiring and utilizing equal power to man. There is no one characteristic that applies to all women as social change leaders (Hurtado).

A warrior is recognized as sonmeone who battles for his/her beliefs. Even after receiving mortal wounds many times, such a person never leaves the battlefield. However, the inspiring and metaphorical idea of a warrior can certainly extend beyond the actual battlefield, and into the universal battle of living life. A woman must face this world like a warrior. She must endure the pain of a past that oppressed her, the adversity of a present that is only beginning to understand her, and a future that will continuously test her. From the beginning of time, Native American women have been a driving force in their cultures, retaining their immense strength throughout

She argues that women face many institutional and societal barriers. In this regard, I will give examples of the institutional and structural barriers such as “The Indian Act” which have significantly affected Indigenous women in Canada in many ways including social, economic and political. While comparing feminists and Indigenous feminists, I think that Native women are different in several ways including social, cultural, historical, political and economic; therefore, Indigenous feminism is a way of practicing the values that they have been taught and inherited from their

Rosalie Edge was born Mabel Rosalie Barrow on November 3, 1877. Rosalie was born into a wealthy family in New York. Like many other women in that time period, Rosalie was supposed to grow up, marry, and run a household. However, Rosalie Edge persisted to fight for women’s equality in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Later in life, after she married, Rosalie became a frequent bird watcher in Central Park, New York, documenting over 804 species. Nevertheless, Rosalie Edge furthered her love of wildlife by becoming involved with environmental activists. Rosalie Edge was fortunate to be part of the Second Period of environmental policies. One environmental injustice that was brought to Rosalie’s attention was the Hawk Mountain poachers. Poachers

Maxine Kingston in “The Women Warrior” presents a traditional Chinese society that anticipates women not to decide what is best for them all by themselves. Kingston creates a woman who goes beyond this ritual culture constraint and who take up

The theme of “voiceless woman” throughout the book “the woman warrior” is of great importance. Maxine Kingston narrates several stories in which gives clear examples on how woman in her family are diminished and silenced by Chinese culture. The author not only provides a voice for herself but also for other women in her family and in her community that did not had the opportunity to speak out and tell their stories.