Research Catalog

Title

• One bead at a time : a memoir / Beverly Little Thunder, as told to Sharron Proulx-Turner.

Author

Little Thunder, Beverly,

Publication

Toronto : Inanna Publications and Education Inc., [2016]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Proulx-Turner, Sharron

Description

xi, 213 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder{u2019}s narrative is told verbatim, her melodious voice and keen sense of humour almost audible overtop of the text on the page. Early in her story, Little Thunder recounts a dream from her early adulthood, ?I stared at these lily pads for the longest time and I decided that there was one part of the pond that had lots of lily pads and no frogs. I said, {u2018}I want to go there because there{u2019}s lots of lily pads but no frogs and I like creating community.{u2019}? And create community she does. Little Thunder established the first and today, the only all-women{u2019}s Sundance in the world, securing a land base in the Green Mountains of Vermont for future generations of Indigenous women{u2019}s ceremony. She was active in the A.I.M. movement and she continues to practice and promote political and spiritual awareness for Indigenous women around the world. A truly remarkable visionary."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

• Inanna memoir series

Subject

• Indian leadership > North America
• Indian women activists > North America > Biography
• Lakota Indians > Biography
• Little Thunder, Beverly
• Two-spirit people > North America > Biography

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Sharron Proulx-Turner -- 1. My beginnings -- 2. Childhood sexual abuse -- 3. Junion high and juvenile hall -- 4. My early marriages -- 5. The American Indian movement -- 6. Coming out -- 7. My Sundance pledge -- 8. Frog seeds -- 9. Womyn's Sundance -- 10. Kunsi Keya -- 11. My children -- 12. Our role as women today -- Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 9781771332651
• 1771332654

OCLC

936978606

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library