The hidden voices of Nuu'Chah'Nulth women
The role of women among NuuâChahâNulth culture has received little attention. As Perdue (1) discusses, few sources exist from the eighteenth century about the lives of Aboriginal women, and what does exist has, in the main, been written from white European and male viewpoints, obscuring womenâs voices and thinking. I will examine the roles and responsibilities of NuuâChahâNulth women today and over the last two hundred years since Cookâs arrival in Nootka Sound on the west-coast of Vancouver Island, during the turbulent, colonial times of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the traumatic era of the lives of NuuâChahâNulth women in the second half of the twentieth century, times of intense cultural change. Whilst building on the research and written observations of explorers, naturalists, fur-traders and Indian agents I hope to give a unique and complex view of how the arrival of the mamalhnâi2 affected the lives of NuuâChahâNulth women, how these women adapted change to their advantage wherever possible through the inspiring words of the women themselves. Thought-provoking, in-depth interviews with thirteen NuuâChahâNulth women conducted over a three year span form the heart
Moore, Jacky
F1086 British Columbia ; HQ1075 Sex role
The hidden voices of Nuu'Chah'Nulth women. The role of women among NuuâChahâNulth culture has received little attention. As Perdue (1) discusses, few sources exist from the eighteenth century about the lives of Aboriginal women, and what does exist has, in the main, been written from white European and male viewpoints, obscuring womenâs voices and thinking. I will examine the roles and responsibilities of NuuâChahâNulth women today and over the last two hundred years since Cookâs arrival in Nootka Sound on the west-coast of Vancouver Island, during the turbulent, colonial times of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the traumatic era of the lives of NuuâChahâNulth women in the second half of the twentieth century, times of intense cultural change. Whilst building on the research and written observations of explorers, naturalists, fur-traders and Indian agents I hope to give a unique and complex view of how the arrival of the mamalhnâi2 affected the lives of NuuâChahâNulth women, how these women adapted change to their advantage wherever possible through the inspiring words of the women themselves. Thought-provoking, in-depth interviews with thirteen NuuâChahâNulth women conducted over a three year span form the heart
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