Bunny McBride. Women of the Dawn. L...

Bunny McBride. Women of the Dawn. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P 1999 152 pp ISBN 0-8032-3209-8 $2200

In Women of the Dawn, Bunny McBride grapples with the question at issue that confronts most biographers of Native women--the paucity of sources. Native oral tradition did nor normally focus forward the lives of individuals, and especially of Native women whose values center onward community welfare rather than individual achievement. The disruption of disease, war, and dispossession also seriously compromised and level destroyed whatever detail existed. Furthermore, Native the community did not leave