#NotYourPrincess : voices of Native American women
Summary
Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native... Full description
- Shawl of memory's embrace / Clear Wind Blows Over the Moon (Cree/Innu-Montagnais/Dene/Metis)
- The ties that bind us
- Tear / Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
- Blankets of shame / Maria Campbell (Metis)
- Two braids / Rosanna Deerchild (Cree)
- My parents' pain / Madelaine McCallum (Cree/Métis)
- #LittleSalmonWoman / Lianne Charlie (Tagé Cho Hudän)
- Reclaiming indigenous women's rights / Nahanni Fontaine (Anishinaabe)
- A tale of two Winonas / Winona Linn (Maliseet)
- Leaks / Leanne Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
- My grandmother Sophia / Saige Mukash (Cree)
- In her words / Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe/Ojibwe) & Jen VanStrander (Western Band of Cherokee)
- It could have been me
- Falling / Natanya Ann Pulley (Navajo)
- I don't want to be afraid / Imajyn Cardinal (Cree/Dene)
- She is riding / Joanne Arnott (Métis)
- Onto the Red Road / Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota)
- The things we taught our daughters / Helen Knott (Dane Zaa/Cree)
- Freedom in the fog / Zoey Roy (Cree/Dene/Métis)
- It could have been me / Patty Stonefish (Lakota)
- Honor song / Gwen Benaway (Anishinaabe/Métis)
- In her words / Gloria Larocque Campbell Moses (Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Northern Alberta) & Nathalie Bertin (Métis)
- I am not your princess
- A conversation with a massage therapist / Francine Cunningham (Cree/Métis)
- We are not a costume / Jessica Deer (Mohawk)
- The invisible Indians / Shelby Lisk (Mohawk)
- What's there to take back? / Tiffany Midge (Hunkpapa Lakota)
- Why not Indians? / DeLanna Studi (Cherokee)
- Stereotype this / Melanie Fey (Diné)
- Real NDNZ / Pamela J. Peters (Navajo)
- I am the only American Indian / Cecilia Rose LaPointe (Ojibway/Métis)
- In her words / Hazel Hedgecoke (Sioux/Hunkpapa/Wendat/Métis/Cherokee/Creek) & Tanaya Winder (Duckwater Shoshone)
- Pathfinders
- When I have a daughter / Ntawnis Piapot (Piapot Cree Nation)
- Defender of Mother Earth / AnnaLee Rain Yellowhammer (Hunkpapa/Standing Rock Sioux)
- Digital smoke signals / Various
- Living their dreams / Shoni Schimmel (Umatilla), September Big Crow (Tsuu T'ina Nation), Ashton Locklear (Lumbee), Brigitte Lacquette (Ojibwe)
- Good medicine / Janet Smylie (Cree/Métis)
- More than meets the eye / Kelly Edzerza-Bapty (Tahltan) and Claire Anderson (Tlingit)
- Baby-girlz-gotta-Mustang / Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota)
- "Dear Past Self" / Isabella Fillspipe (Oglala Lakota)
- In her words / Adrianne Chalepah (Kiowa/Apache) & Lee Maracle (Stó:lō Nation)
- Little sister / Tasha Spillett (Cree).
- Illustrations including artwork and photographs:
- RedWoman /
- by Aza E. Abe (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe)
- Transform /
- by Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation)
- [Untitled] /
- artwork by Wakeah Jhane (Comanche/Blackfoot/Kiowa)
- Enrollment /
- by Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath/Modoc)
- [Untitled] /
- illustration by Danielle Daniel (Métis)
- Resilient /
- by Sierra Edd (Diné)
- Tagé Cho (Big River) /
- by Lianne Marie Leda Charlie (Tagé Cho Hudän)
- Morning Star /
- by Rayna Hernandez (Lakota)
- Actress Imajyn Cardinal in "The Saver"
- Photos of Zoey Roy /
- by Tenille Campbell (Dene, English River Nation/Métis) of Sweetmoon Photography
- We are sacred /
- by Chief Lady Bird (Anishinaabe)
- [Untitled] /
- illustration by Karlene Harvey (Tsilhqot'in/Carrier/Okanagan)
- [Untitled] /
- illustration by Chief Lady Bird (Anishinaabe)
- DeLanna Studi playing Kiona Stetson in the short film Blessed
- Identity of stripes and stars /
- by Serra Edd (Diné)
- Shayna Jackson (Dakota/Cree) channeling Audrey Hepburn
- Deja Jones (Eastern Shoshone) channeling Ava Gardner
- Memories /
- by Aura Last (Oneida)
- Portrait /
- by Sierra Edd (Diné)
- [Untitled] /
- illustration by Chief Lady Bird (Anishinaabe)
- [Untitled] /
- illustration by Julie Flett (Cree/Métis).