#Notyourprincess: Voices of Native American Women

By Lisa Charleyboy

Book Overview

Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book.

In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554519578
• ISBN13: 9781554519576
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Annick Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

So grateful for this book

I take a chance on unfamiliar books often. Doesn’t always work out. This was a chance buy. Arrived today. I am buying 4 more copies as gifts immediately. It is difficult to be a good parent and person in the US sometimes. Teaching my kids about the crime of the ‘Indian princess’ stereotype, when I’m up against the machine of Disney/Mattel/TV is not an easy task. This book offers an amazing powerful set of alternative views and voices that help to fill the gap I create when I say ‘not that’. I can now offer my kids, ‘not that. this’. Hopefully it creates openness to better relationships, more learning, understanding, humility, solidarity. Huge gratitude to Charleyboy and Leatherdale.