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A necessary balance : gender and power among Indians of the Columbia Plateau / Lillian A. Ackerman.
- Title
- A necessary balance : gender and power among Indians of the Columbia Plateau / Lillian A. Ackerman.
- Author
- Ackerman, Lillian A. (Lillian Alice)
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2003.
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- Description
- xiv, 282 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In the past, many Native American cultures have treated women and men as equals. In A Necessary Balance, Lillian A. Ackerman examines the balance of power and responsibility between men and women within each of the eleven Plateau Indian tribes who live today on the Colville Indian Reservation in north-central Washington State." "Ackerman analyzes tribal cultures over three historical periods lasting more than a century - the traditional past, the farming phase when Indians were forced onto the reservation, and the twentieth-century industrial present. Ackerman examines gender equality in terms of power, authority, and autonomy in four social spheres: economic, domestic, political, and religious."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 246
- Uniform Title
- Civilization of the American Indian series v. 246.
- Subject
- Colville Indians > Social life and customs
- Colville women > History
- Indians of North America > Columbia Plateau > Social life and customs
- Equality > Washington (State) > Colville Indian Reservation > History
- Sex role > Washington (State) > Colville Indian Reservation > History
- Colville Indian Reservation (Wash.) > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-269) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Strangers Enter the Plateau -- 2. Methodology and Background -- 3. Traditional Plateau Culture -- 4. Gender Status in Traditional Colville Reservation Culture -- 5. The Formation of the Reservation and the Effects of Forced Acculturation on Gender Status -- 6. Gender Status in Contemporary Colville Reservation Culture -- Comparisons, Commentaries, and Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 0806134852 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002075018
- OCLC
- 50809293
- SCSB-13435193
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library