The women's Great Lakes reader

Introduction

North woods (1981) / Judith Minty

Introduction

Anishinaabeg: The First Peoples Of The Lakes

Introduction

Underwater lion: a Chippewa tale / Robert Ritzenthaler

Profile: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

Mishosha, or the magician and his daughters: a Chippewa tale

Forsaken brother: a Chippewa tale

Moowis: a Chippewa tale / Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

My love has departed (c 1910) / Mrs Mary English

From "The Loon Feather" / Iola Fuller

From "A Little History Of My Forest Life (1894) / Eliza Morrison

Pagan in St Paul's (1906)

Corn husker (1903) / E Pauline Johnson

Lake of dreams (1997) / Susan Power

Jacklight (1984) / Louise Erdrich

Women Pioneers On The Frontier

Introduction

Journal of a tour to Niagara and Detroit in 1789 / Ann Powell

From "Reminiscences of Early Days on Mackinac Island (c 1880s) / Elizabeth Therese Baird

From "Wa-bun: The Early Day In The Northwest" (1856) / Juliette MaGill Kinzie

Journey of the first white settlement across the Georgian Bay (1921) / Soaphy Anderson

To Michigan by water-1844 / Mary Per Lee

From "A Narrative of Life on Isle Royale During the Years of 1874 and 1875 (1932) / Sarah Barr Christian

From the journal of Emma Baylis (1872-1884) / Emma Baylis

Profile: Constance Fenimore Woolson

St Clair Flats (1873)

Marsh Hawk (1978) / Margaret Atwood

Women Travelers On The Lakes

Introduction

From "A Young Traveler's Journal Of A Tour In North And South America During The Year 1850 (1856) / Victoria Stuart-Wortley

From "The Englishwoman in America (1856) / Isabella Lucy Bird

Profile: Anna Jameson

From "Winter Studies and Summer rambles in Canada (1838) / Anna Jameson

Husbandless vacation (1915) / Grace Margaret Wilson

Lake Superior (1968) / Lorine Niedecker

From "In the Wake of the Gemini (1962) /Ann Davison

Mackinac Island (1984) / Paulette Jiles

Women's Work

Introduction

Madame Laframboise, Fur trader (1898) / Elizabeth Therese Baird

How a Menomini woman earns money (1920-1921) / Maskwawanahkwatok

Fickle fortunes of female cooks (1978-1883)

From "Not by Bread Alone (1941) / Mary Frances Doner

In grandpa's wake (1953) / Ester Rice Battenfeld

Girl diver of the Great Lakes (1905) / James Oliver Curwood

Margaret Goodman, Salvager (1922-1938)

Toledo woman a licensed pilot (1906)

Buffalo whore (c 1930s) / collected by Ivan H Walton

Profile: Elizabeth Whitney Williams

From "A Child of the Sea, and Life Among the Mormons" (1905) / Elizabeth Whitney Williams

Life-saving medals awarded to Great Lakes women (1889, 1899)

Fall of the lighthouse (1889) / Frances B Hurlbut

From "The Log of the Michigan City Lighthouse " (1872-1904) / Harriet Colfax

From "A Light on The Seaway" (1972) / Ethel Williamson

Best job in the world (1997) / Victoria Brehm

Women's Lives, Women's Lakes

Introduction

Narrative of Nodinens (c 1900) / collected by Frances Densmore

Going after strawberries (1889) / Frances B Hurlbut

Life of a Lake Superior fisherman family (c 1980) / Ida Stafford

Looking astern (1957) / Anna Young

Caretaker's daughter (1956) / Uldene Rudd LeRoy

From "Widow of the Waves" (1994) / Bev Jamison

Sleeping bear (1997) / Rosalind Srb Mayberry

Ozymandias (1997) / Sylvia Kelly

From "The Survivor of the Edmund Fitzgerald (1985) / Joan Skelton

She-who-finishes-grieving (1995) / Ann Linnea

No-ko-mis (1992) / Joanne Hart

Acknowledgments

Bibliography.