We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies Oneida Tommy Pico

Tommy Pico

and customs of both Sioux and white cultures and raises issues of assimilation

Aileen Moreton-Robinson's introductory essay provides a context for the emerging discipline

uses these pieces of her mother's life to try and understand her mother's relationship to home

The history and knowledge passed down to each generation through the bundle is at stake

We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-Of-Age Ceremonies Oneida Tommy Pico"I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you." So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy's deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women's coming of age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe's Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and