A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941 boarding schools Jacklight and Baptism of Desire

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A Field of Their Own: Women and American Indian History, 1830-1941 boarding schools Jacklight and Baptism of DesireOne hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women's history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to be identified with Indian history and why they eventually claimed it as their own field. From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie Debo, the magnitude of their