This multidisciplinary collection of nine previously unpublished essays presents new research in three interlocking domains: tribal history with a special emphasis on Native women in the Southeast, language revitalization efforts and the narrative knowledge inherent in indigenous oral culture, and traditional educational systems in the context of the ongoing colonization of American Indian educational practices and values. This volume highlights Southeastern Indian issues and demonstrates the unique situation of women in tribes lacking (full) federal recognition or a more inclusive and multidisciplinary discussion of Native women in more than one tribal nation. Southeastern themes are linked with topics of concern by other tribal nations to show commonalities and raised awareness about the central experiences and contributions of Native women in the encounter and ongoing struggle with Euro-American systems of oppression and cultural erasure. This book spans the full gamut from naming women's experiences of historical trauma to their ongoing efforts at preserving and rebuilding their Native nations. The collection of essays is distinctive in its Indigenous hermeneutics in that it insists on a holistic view of time and place-based knowledge - the past still fully affects the present and gives the present depth and meaning beyond the linear flow of time. This book also features American Indian and non-American Indian scholars who are well known in American Indians studies, scholars beginning their career and scholars who, while not experts in American Indians studies, are considered experts in other disciplines and who recognize the unique attributes of Southeastern American Indian nations.

Contents: Cherry Maynor Beasley: Foreword as Story: I Am Not the Problem ¿ Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction ¿ Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction to Part One ¿ Malinda Maynor Lowery: Lumbee Indian Women: Historical Change and Cultural Adaptation ¿ Rosemary White Shield: Healing Responses to Historical Trauma: Native Women's Perspectives ¿ Mary Ann Jacobs: Southeastern American Indians, Segregation, and Historical Trauma Theory ¿ Renée T. Grounds/Eva Marie Garroutte: American Indian Language Revitalization as Lived Experience ¿ Cherry Maynor Beasley: Narrative Hermeneutics and the Experiential Transformation of Care ¿ Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction to Part Two ¿ Olivia Oxendine: The Elder Teachers Project: Finding Promise in the Past ¿ Rosemary White Shield: Oshki Giizhigad (The New Day): Native Education Resurgence in Traditional Worldviews and Educational Practice ¿ Christy M. Buchanan/S. Grace Bobbitt: Parenting for Adolescent Well-Being in American Indian Communities ¿ Rose Stremlau/Jane Haladay: Honoring Women in the American Indian Studies Classroom.