Recollecting

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Lifelines: Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands / Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack

Part 1: Transatlantic Connections

1 Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert’s Land / Susan Berry

2 Lost Women: Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis / Patricia A. McCormack

3 Christina Massan’s Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History / Alison K. Brown, with Christina Massan & Alison Grant

Part 2: Cultural Mediators

4 Repositioning the Missionary: Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal Women in Catholic Missions of the Northwest / Lesley Erickson

5 The “Accomplished” Odille Quintal Morison: Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary of Metlakatla, British Columbia / Maureen L. Atkinson

6 Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada / Kristin Burnett

Part 3: In the Borderlands

7 Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman / Jean Barman

8 The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work, and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman / Sarah Carter

Part 4: The Spirit World

9 Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo) / Nathan D. Carlson

10 Pakwâciskwew: A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman / Susan Elaine Gray

Part 5: Challenging and Crafting Representations 

11 Frances Nickawa: “A Gifted Interpreter of the Poetry of Her Race” / Jennifer S.H. Brown

12 Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo’s Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes / Kristin L. Gleeson

Notes

List of Contributors

Index