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Article: Commonality of difference: American Indian women and history.(Writing About American Indians)
- Article from:
- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
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Literature about American Indian women has increased dramatically during the past twenty years. Recent works reflect the efforts ethnohistorians have made in re-creating Indian women's histories, and their publications illustrate sensitivity to their positions as interpreters of the lives, cultures, and histories of Others. While female scholars who study American Indian women have made significant inroads into their histories,(1) many interpretations remain incorrect and undeveloped, providing only partial answers to complicated questions about Native women. Their studies also do not connect the past to the present, which is why we should be writing history in the first ...