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200 10$aEmpowerment of North American Indian girls$b[electronic resource] $eritual expressions at puberty /$fCarol A. Markstrom
210   $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (455 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8032-3257-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [367]-397) and index.
327   $aContextual and methodological considerations -- Contemporary youth concerns in historical perspective -- North American Indian perspectives on human development -- Menstruation, cosmology, and feminism -- Historical overview of coming-of-age practices -- The Apache Sunrise Dance -- Interpretation of the Apache Sunrise Dance -- Contemporary Navajo, Lakota, and Ojibwa puberty customs -- Broader perspectives on coming-of-age.
330   $aEmpowerment of North American Indian Girls is an examination of coming-of-age-ceremonies for American Indian girls past and present, featuring an in-depth look at Native ideas about human development and puberty. Many North American Indian cultures regard the transition from childhood to adulthood as a pivotal and potentially vulnerable phase of life and have accordingly devised coming-of-age rituals to affirm traditional values and community support for its members. Such rituals are a positive and enabling social force in many modern Native communities whose younger generations are wrestling 
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