Author: Cutcha Risling Baldy File Type: pdf font face=Segoe UI, serif size=2I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you. So begins Cutcha Risling Baldys deeply personal account of the revitalization of the womens coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribes Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of thetradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories.fontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2fontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2Deeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed byculturalrevitalization, including the accounts of young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this renaissance ofwomens coming-of-ageceremonies confounds ethnographic depictions of Native women challenges anthropological theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age and addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native communities.font p Segoe UI, serif 13px**h3 Segoe UI, serif 13pxReview p Segoe UI, serif 13pxI am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you. So begins Cutcha Risling Baldys deeply personal account of the revitalization of the womens coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribes Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories. p Segoe UI, serif 13pxDeeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this renaissance of womens coming-of-age ceremonies confounds ethnographic depictions of Native women challenges anthropological theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age and addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native communities. h3 Segoe UI, serif 13pxReview p Segoe UI, serif 13pxA truly significant contribution to the field exploring Indigenous approaches to menstruation and the meaning of womanhood. That it is grounded in the particular culture of the author makes it all the more valuable and unique.Kim Anderson, author of Life Stages and Native Women Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine p Segoe UI, serif 13pxI am in awe . . . Risling Baldys interventions into the field are many and absolutely necessary. We Are Dancing for You is located in a place, in the lives of a community where the voices of individual women are heard, as is the authors. [This book] locates its authority in community knowledge and language. It pushes back against the outside, primarily white male ethnographic professional as authority.Dian Million (Tanana), author of Therapeutic Nations Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights p Segoe UI, serif 13pxPart meticulous research, part spiritual journey, and fully in the heart of cultural re-invention, We Are Dancing for You does work that cherishes, educates, celebrates, and enriches our future generations with the knowledge that yes, our bodies are the archive, and the archive is alive and singing.Deborah A. Miranda, (Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation Chumash), author of Bad Indians A Tribal Memoir p Segoe UI, serif 13pxCutcha Risling Baldys research on the Hupa flower dance is important feminist and Indigenous scholarship as she is not only approaching the subject as a key insider, but she is also exploring what it means in the larger continuum of Hupa epistemologies and ontologies. While this could easily and beautifully linger in the ethnographic realm of scholarship or in the more common California Indian Studies sphere of examining the devastating consequences of colonization and genocide in California, Ms. Baldy instead magnificently pushes the analysis further by developing a Hupa feminist methodology. She models the political possibilities in reviving the dances that are geared especially toward woman. This tribally specific work and her analysis reaches beyond Northern California and into other Indigenous groups who are working to decolonize structures by regaining healthy gendered elements of tribal life and activist work. These insights are key to our understandings of cultural production, gender, and revitalization and vital to understanding solutions for California Indian communities.Mishauna Goeman, (Tonawanda Band of Seneca), author of Mark My Words Native Women (Re)mapping Our Nations

Author: David Hilliard File Type: pdf The Black Panther Party represents Black Panther Party members coordinated responses over the last four decades to the failure of city, state, and federal bureaucrats to address the basic needs of their respective communities. The Party pioneered free social service programs that are now in the mainstream of American life. The Partys Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation, operated with Oaklands Childrens Hospital, was among the nations first such testing programs. Its Free Breakfast Program served as a model for national programs. Other initiatives included free clinics, grocery giveaways, school and education programs, senior programs, and legal aid programs. Published here for the first time in book form, The Black Panther Party makes the case that the programs methods are viable models for addressing the persistent, basic social injustices and economic problems of todays American cities and suburbs.From the Inside FlapThe Black Panther Party has responded to the needs of various communities underserved by government agencies by providing social services ranging from food and educational programs to medical care. About the AuthorThe Huey P. Newton Foundation was co-founded in 1993 in Oakland, California, by David Hilliard to honor the legacy of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, who had been killed four years earlier. A member of the Black Liberation Movement, Hilliard was one of the founders of the Black Panther Party. He is author, coauthor, or editor of eight additional books, including Huey, Spirit of the Panther and The Huey P. Newton Reader. He is writing or editing other books, including The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service 1967-1980 and The History of the Black Panther Party.Cornel West is professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton University. Among his most recent books are Democracy Matters, The African-American Century, The War Against Parents, The Future of American Progressivism, and Race Matters.