Featured Site: Indigenous Women's Network This site richly documents the ongoing work by indigenous women to decolonize and recreate vital native cultures on this continent.
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Chicana Studies homepage from CLNET This page, created by Romelia Salinas at UCLA, is designed to provide Chicanas and Latinas access to information regarding conferences and events, call for papers, research centers and organizations, lebian and bisexual resources, bibliographies, and more. Also contains useful directories to general Women's Studies networks.
- Sacagawea Indispensible indigeinous leader of the Corps of Discovery, whose ostensible leaders were named Lewis and Clark.
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Impressions of an Indian Childhood
Zitkala-Sa Electronic version of the piece that first appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1900. It centers around the author's relationship with her mother, but deals also with changes wrought by the arrival of missionaries.
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Mari Sandoz center The site has information on the center itself as well as a brief biography (includes access to a more complete version), a bibliography of Sandoz's work, information on the Mari Sandoz society, and a nicely done photo exhibit accompanied by excerpts from Old Jules. Also contains related links on the region.
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Letters and Journals of Narcissa Whitman (1836) Cross-country journey and settlement of missionary to Northwest Indians.
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Across the Plains in 1844 by Catherine Sager Pringle Pioneer account of trip across plains to the Northwest .
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Luzena Stanley Wilson '49er
First person stories of women in the Gold Rush; Wilson's reminiscences as taken down by her daughter in 1881 .
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Julia Louisa Lovejoy,
Selected Letters from Kansas
1855-1863.
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Autobiography of Calamity Jane Divided into three sections that deal with Calamity Jane's early life, her notorious years with Wild Bill Hickok, and her later married life in Texas. Includes an introduction by Mr. Casey and a few photos.
- Remember the Alamo by Amelia Barr, 1888.
- Willa Cather homepage Fine resource for both scholars and fans. It not only provides access to other major Willa Cather pages but also contains extensive biograhpical information, reproductions of publications both by and about the author, and a great section on quotations. Includes photos.
- National Cowgirl Museum Also includes the cowgirl hall of fame. Makes an effort get beyond the white cowgirl stereotype.
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Women's Studies Resources from University of Maryland. A major site for historical and contemporary issues regarding all aspects of women's live.
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American Women's History: A Research Guide A well-organized and easy-to-use page that indexes bibliographical information on women's history and related topics, as well as other useful websites.
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Feminism and Women's Studies Excellent resource, including sections on history,theory, gender/sexuality, and activism.
- National Women's History Project A page created to promote gender equity through education by focusing on the diverse lives and accomplishments of women throughout the nation's history. Useful for students as well as educators.
- African American Women in the West
- Women Artists of the American West, Past and Present
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South Asian Women's Net A unique resource for South Asian women that is concerned primarily with contemporary issues. Nicely organized, helpful, and visually appealing. Also has extensive bibliographies of works by and for South Asian women.
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Filipina Women's Network This rather commercial site features hitorical and contemporary issues facing Filipinas.
- Women in the West course syllabus from historian Catherine Lavender. Includes useful though now dated bibliography. And includes these recommendations for women's fiction and creative non-fiction about the modern US West: Anglo writers like Mary Clearman Blew (All But the Waltz), Teresa Jordan (Riding the White Horse Home, Graining the Mare, and Cowgirls), Judith Freeman (The Chinchilla Farm), Molly Gloss (Jump-off Creek), Pamela Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness), Barbara Kingsolver (Homeland, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven), Susan Lowell (Ganado Red), Dierdre McNamer (Rima in the Weeds), Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping), and Terry Tempest Williams (Pieces of White Shell, Refuge, and Desert Quartet); Chicana writers like Denise Chavez, (Last of the Menu Girls) and Sandra Cisneros (Woman Hollering Creek and The House on Mango Street); Native American writers like Louise Erdrich (Tracks, Beet Queen, Love Medicine, and The Bingo Palace), Janet Campbell Hale (The Jailing of Cecilia Capture), Linda Hogan (Mean Spirit and Dwellings), and Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead); Asian-American writers like Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men, The Woman Warrior), Amy Tan (Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife), and Hisaye Yamamoto (Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories).