Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century

Download or read book Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century written by Cora Voyageur and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Elsie Knott, the first female chief in Canada, Cora Voyageur presents the lives of sixty-four of the ninety women chiefs who have assumed the traditionally male role of elected First Nations leadership. Using a range of qualitative research strategies, surveys, participant observation, interviews, and discussions with focus groups, Voyageur presents the colonial histories behind the issues that contemporary Aboriginal communities struggle with and delineates the resulting leadership dilemmas for chiefs, while also articulating a story that is unique to First Nations women.