Weaving Community: Indigenous Women and Leadership in the Twin Cities

Weaving Community: Indigenous Women and Leadership in the Twin CitiesA compelling history of the often overlooked work of contemporary Native American women who took action to strengthen the bonds within and among their urban communities. From the 1960s through the 1990s in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Native women activists helped build institutions that sustain urban Indigenous communities to this day. Weaving Community pays tribute to figures such as Vernell Wabasha, Winifred Jourdain, Bonnie Wallace, and Laura

Indigenous ways of knowing

those made to make other kinds of beauty

In these twenty-six charming and original stories

a home for his family—which includes Eva and four sons—and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town

Beavert went on to earn graduate degrees in education and linguistics

he describes the groups that shaped U

but honour Indigenous women as keepers and protectors of land

her beak is filled each time with just a drop of water

while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman

a young warrior and medicine man of great vision

entered a polygamous marriage with a Dakota man

bestselling and award-winning author of Clearing the Plains