We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies (Indigenous Confluences)

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“I’m here. You’ll never be on my own. We are dancing for you.” So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy’s deeply personal account of the revitalization of The ladies’s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. On the end of the 20th century, the tribe’s Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The ladies of the tribe, recognizing the very important importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization The use of the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories.

Deeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of younger women who have participated within the Flower Dance. The use of a framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this renaissance of women’s coming-of-age ceremonies confounds ethnographic depictions of Native women; challenges anthropological theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age; and addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native communities.

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