Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Women Ethnographers, Relational Science,
and Native American Women Storytellers ?
Chapter 2: Franc Johnson Newcomb’s Navajo Ethnography of Ahson
Tsosie in Hosteen Klah
Chapter 3: The Interwoven Stories of Maria Chona and Ruth M.
Underhill: The Autobiography of a Papago Woman
Chapter 4: “I’m going to tell you a story”: Mountain Wolf Woman and
Transitional Ethnographic Relations
Chapter 5: The Convergence of Life and Myth as Testimonio in Julie
Cruikshank’s Life Lived Like a Story
Chapter 6: Mrs. Angela Sidney’s Stories about the Gold Rush Years
and their Colonizing Effects on the First Nations People of the
Yukon
Chapter 7: Indigenous Origination in Bighorse the Warrior by Tiana
Bighorse and Noël Bennett
Epilogue: The Value of Women’s Relational Ethnographic Practice:
Epistemology, Methodology, and Pedagogy
Works Cited
About the Author
Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez is Caterpillar Inc. Professor of English at Bradley University.
This interesting book focuses on the collaborative work between two
sets of women: Native American storytellers and the
ethnographers/editors with whom they worked in order to record
their and their families’ life experiences. . . .Brill de Ramírez
offers an account of increasing authorial control and recognition
for indigenous women storytellers. . . . Women Ethnographers and
Native Women Storytellers: Relational Science, Ethnographic
Collaboration, and Tribal Community offers new insights into the
various shapes and dynamics of collaborative, experience-centered
scholarship. The volume may have particular value for studies of
women’s literature not only because the authors and subjects
(except for Gus Bighorse) are women but also because Brill de
Ramírez frames her subject as ‘women’s relational ethnographic
practice’ (p. 173). . . .Brill de Ramírez celebrates biographical
and autobiographical literature that emerges from and directs
itself toward indigenous families, communities, and storytelling
traditions, while also speaking to a broader readership. With its
focus on complexities of collaboration, translation, and
representation, this book makes a worthwhile contribution to the
study of indigenous women’s literature.
*Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature*
Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez offers a fascinating reading of Native
American women's ethnographies that is attentive to, but not
limited by, the legacies of colonialism in which they are situated.
This is a reading that considers these as the complex texts—and
contexts—they are. She does not avoid knotty questions of
reliability and "truth"; indeed, she navigates them with a
productive wariness.
*Cari Carpenter, West Virginia University*
In the tradition of the fine scholarship she has previously done in
the field, Dr. Susan Brill de Ramirez’s Women Ethnographers and
Native Women Storytellers makes an important contribution to
American Indian literary studies. This volume makes a strong
argument for the American Indian perspective that no life is lived
in isolation, but rather within an interwoven network of human and
non-human relationships. American Indian women’s autobiographies,
if they are to be true to those from whom they come, must be
inclusive of not only the other human voices that are part of our
individual stories, including those of our ancestors and nations,
but also those voices that emanate from the land itself.
*Kimberly Wieser, University of Oklahoma*
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