American Indian Women (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Marion E. Gridley
- First Published: 1974
- Time of Work: The seventeenth century through the twentieth century
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Pocahontas, Nancy Ward, Sacajawea, Sarah Winnemucca, Susan La Flesche, Roberta Campbell Lawson, Pablita Velarde, Annie Dodge Wauneka, Maria and Marjorie Tallchief, Elaine Abraham Ramos
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Native Americans or American Indians, Women’s issues, Women, Heroes or heroism, Biography
- Locales: United States
Form and Content
In the brief biographical sketches of American Indian Women, Marion E. Gridley presents her readers with absorbing details of the personal histories of several Native American women, as well as informative background information on the various cultural mores and values that helped to shape the lives of her subjects. The book covers a three-hundred-year period and treats its eighteen major subjects chronolog- ically, beginning at the seventeenth century with Queen Wetamoo, the daughter-in-law of Chief Massasoit, and concluding with Elaine Abraham Ramos, a...
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