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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.
In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.
OPENING POEM
shawl of memory’s embrace
by Clear Wind Blows Over The Moon (Cree, Innu-Montagnais, Dene, Metis)
Section 1 – The Ties That Bind Us
POEM
Tear
by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
SHORT ESSAY
Blankets of Shame
by Maria Campbell (Metis)
POEM
two braids
Rosanna Deerchild (Cree)
ART
Apsáalooke Feminist series
By Wendy Red Star (Crow)
SHORT ESSAY
Native American Women — The Original Feminists
By Nahanni Fontaine (Anishinaabe)
ART
The Side Dancer’s Gift
Marika Echachis Swan (Tla-oqui-aht Nation)
SPOKEN WORD
Leaks
by Leanne Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
VISUAL SCRAPBOOK
My Grandmother Sophia
By Saige Mukash (Cree)
Section 2 – It Could Have Been Me
PROSE POEM
Falling
By Natanya Ann Pulley (Navajo)
SPOKEN WORD
When Angels Speak of Love
Tanaya Winder (Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, Pyramid Lake Palute
ART
Nitewake:non “the place where I come from”
Melissa General (Mohawk/Oneida)
POEM
She is riding
Joanne Arnott (Metis)
ART
On the Red Road
By Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota)
SPOKEN WORD
The Things We Taught Our Daughters
By Helen Knott (Dana Zaa /Cree)
MEMOIR
Freedom in the Fog
By Zondra Roy (Cree/Dene/Metis)
VISUAL SCRAPBOOK
It Could Have Been Me
By Patricia Stonefish (Lakota)
Section 3: I Am Not Your Princess
POEM
A Conversation with a Massage Therapist
By Francine Cunningham (Cree/ Metis)
PHOTO SERIES
The Invisible Indians
By Shelby Lisk (Mohawk from Tyendinaga)
SPOKEN WORD
Grey Owl
By Winona Linn (Meskwaki)
ESSAY
What’s there to take back?
Tiffany Midge (Standing Rock Sioux)
POEM
Stereotype This
Melanie Fey (Dine)
ART
Real NDNZ
Pamela J. Peters (Navajo)
VISUAL SCRAPBOOK
I Am the Only American Indian
By Cecelia Rose LaPointe (Ojibway/Metis)
Section 4: Pathfinders
POEM
When I have a Daughter
by Ntawnis Piapot (Piapot Cree Nation)
PROFILE
Defender of Mother Earth
Teen Activist Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer
TWITTER COLLAGE
Various
GRAPHIC NOVEL
Fala
Elizabeth LaPensee (Metis)
INTERVIEW
Dr. Janet Smylie (Metis)
PHOTO ESSAY
Living Their Dreams — Native American Athletes
SPOKEN WORD
Etuaptmumk
Rebecca Thomas (Miq’mak)
VISUAL SCRAPBOOK
Dear Past Self
Isabelle Rilispipe
CLOSING POEM
Little Sister
Tasha Spillet
EXCERPT
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