Minerva Bibliographies: Latin America

Most Recommended:

  • Boxer, C. R.
    Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas, 1415-1815: Some Facts, Fancies, and Personalities
    New York: Oxford UP, 1975

  • Erauso, Catalina de.
    Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World
    .
    Trans. Stepto, Michele Stepto and Gabriel
    Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 1996
  • Salas, Elizabeth
    Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myth and History
    Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990
  • Salas, Elizabeth
    “Soldaderas: New Questions, New Sources.”
    Women’s Studies Quarterly
     23.3 & 4 (1995): 112-116

Additional:

  • Ganson, Barbara
    “Following Their Children into Battle: Women at War in Paraguay, 1864-1870.”
    The Americas
     46. (1990): 335-7l
  • Guevara, Che.
    Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
    London: Allen & Unwin, 1968
  • Gugliotta, Bobette
    Women of Mexico: The Consecrated and the Commoners, 1519-1900
    Encino, CA: Floricanto Press, 1989
  • Henderson, James D. and Linda Roddy Henderson
    Ten Notable Women of Latin America
    Chicago: Nelson-Hall Inc., 1978
  • Herrera-Sobek, Maria
    The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990
  • Kentner, Janet R.
    “The Socio-Political Role of Women in the Mexican Wars of Independence.”
    PhD Dissertation.
     Loyola University, 1974
  • Macdonald, Sharon, Pat Holden, and Shirley Ardener
    Images of Women in Peace and War
    London: Macmillan, 1987
  • Macias, Anna
    Against All Odds: The Feminist Movement in Mexico to 1940
    Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982
  • Merrim, Stephanie
    “Catalina de Erauso: From Anomaly to Icon.”
    Coded Encounters
    . Ed. Ceballos-Candau, Francisco Javier
    Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. 177-205
  • Moore, Evelyn
    “Girl of the Underground: La Pola, Heroine of Colombia’s Struggle for Independence.”
    Americas 5. (1953): 20-23, 27-28
  • Perez, Esther R., James Kallas, and Nina Kallas
    Those Years of the Revolution, 1910-1920: Authentic Bilingual Life Experiences as Told by Veterans of the War
    San Jose: Aztlan Today, 1974
  • Plenn, J. H.
    “Forgotten Heroines of Mexico: Tales of the Soldaderas, Amazons of War and Revolution.”
    Travel 66. (1936): 24-2
  • Rojas, Marta and Mirta Rodriguez Calderon, Eds.
    Tania: The Unforgettable Guerilla
    New York: Random House, 1971
  • Starrett, Vincent
    “Soldier Women of Mexico.”
    Open Court: A Quarterly Magazine
     32. (1918): 376-382

Native American

Most Recommended:

  • Buffalohead, Priscilla K.
    “Farmers, Warriors, Traders: A Fresh Look at Ojibway Women.”
    Minnesota History
     48. (1983): 236-244
  • Mathes, Valerie Sherer
    “Native American Women in Medicine and the Military.”
    Journal of the West
     21.2 (1982): 41-48
  • Medicine, Beatrice
    “‘Warrior Women’ — Sex Role Alternatives for Plains Indian Women.”
    The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women
    Eds. Medicine, Beatrice and Patricia Albers
    Washington: University Press of America, 1983. 267-280
  • Niethammer, Carolyn
    Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women
    New York: Collier, 1977
  • Stockel, H. Henrietta
    Women of the Apache Nation:
     Voices of Truth
    Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1991
  • Williams, Walter L.
    The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
    Boston: Beacon, 1986

Additional:

  • Ball, Eve
    In The Days of Victorio: 
     Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache
    Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981
  • Bataille, Gretchen M.
    American Indian Women
    Garland, 1991
  • Bataille, Gretchen M.
    Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary
    . Vol. 1.
    Garland, 1994
  • Brust, James S.
    “Into the Face of History.”
    American Heritage
     43.7 (1992): 104-113
  • Brust, James S.
    “John H. Fouch:
     First Photographer at Fort Keogh.”
    Montana, the Magazine of Western History
     44.2 (1994): 2-17
  • Carrigan, Minnie Bruce
    Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota
    Forest City, SD: np, 1907
  • Delaney, Matilda
    A Survivor’s Recollections of the Whitman Massacre
    Spokane, WA: np, 1920
  • Denig, Edwin Thompson
    Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri
    Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961
  • Eastman, Mary
    Dahcotah, or Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
    New York: John Wiley, 1849
  • Ewers, John C.
    “Deadlier than the Male.”
    American Heritage
     26.4 (1965): 10-13
  • Foreman, Carolyn Thomas
    Indian Women Chiefs
    Washington, DC: Zenger, 1976
  • Fuller, Emeline L.
    Left By the Indians: The Story of My Life
    Mt. Vernon, IA: np, 1892
  • Graymont, Barbara
    The Iroqouis in the American Revolution
    Syracuse, NY: 1972
  • Grinnell, George Bird
    The Fighting Cheyennes
    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1915
  • Grinnell, George Bird
    The Cheyenne Indians:
     Their History and Ways of Life
    New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,, 1923. 2 vols.
  • Hammack, Bill
    “Cherokee Phoenix.”
    Outdoors in Georgia
     Feb 1978: 18-22
  • Hanson, Elizabeth
    God’s Mercy Surmounting Man’s Cruelty Exemplified in the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson
    Philadelphia: np, 1728
  • Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca
    Life among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
    New York: Putnam, 1883
  • Huey, Lois M. and Bonnie Pulis
    Molly Brant:
     A Legacy of Her Own
    Old Fort Niagara Association, 1997
  • Hungry Wolf, Beverly
    The Ways of My Grandmothers
    New York: Morrow, 1980
  • Josephy, Alvin M.
    The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance
    New York: Viking, 1961
  • Karttunnen, Frances
    Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides and Survivors
    Rutgers University Press,
  • Klein, Laura F. and Lillian Ackerman
    Women and Power in Native North America
    U of Oklahoma P, 1995
  • Knaster, Merl
    Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times
    Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977
  • Kurz, Rudolph Friederick
    Journals of Rudolph Friederick Kurz
    . 1937
    Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology., Bulltin 115
  • Landes, Ruth
    The Mystic Lake Sioux: Sociology of the Mdewakantonwan Santee
    Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968
  • Larimer, Sarah L. (Mrs)
    The Capture and Escape or Life Among the Sioux
    Philadelphia: np, 1870
  • Lewis, Gilbert
    Day of Shining Red: an essay on understanding ritual
    Cambridge: Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1980
  • Lewis, Oscar
    “The Manly-Hearted Women among the Northern Piegan.”
    American Anthropologist
     43. (1941): 173-87
  • Linderman, Frank B.
    Pretty Shield:
     Medicine Woman of the Crow
    New York, NY: John Day Company, 1972
  • Malone, Henry T.
    Cherokees of the Old South
    Athens, GA: 1956
  • Medicine, Beatrice and Patricia Albers, Eds.
    The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women
    Washington: University Press of America, 1983
  • Meeker, Josephine
    The Ute Massacre! Brave Miss Meeker’s Captivity! Her Own Account of It, Also the Narratives of Her Mother and Mrs. Price
    Philadelphia: np, 1879
  • Mitre, Bartolomé
    Historia de Belgrano
    . Vol. 2.
    Buenos Aire: 1902
  • O’Donnell, James H.
    Southern Indians in the American Revolution
    Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973
  • Potter-Mackinnon, Janice
    While the Women Only Wept:
     Loyalist Regugee Women in Eastern Ontario
    1993
  • Powell, Father Peter John
    People of the Sacred Mountain:
      A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879 With an Epilogue 1969-1974
    San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981. 2 vols.
  • Prentice, Alison, et al.
    Canadian Women:
     A History
    Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988
  • Robinson, Helen Caister
    Mistress Molly, The Brown Lady
    Toronto and Charlottetown: Dundurn Press, 1980
  • Robinson, Helen Caister
    “Molly Brant:
     Mohawk Heroine.”
    Eleven Exiles:
     Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution
    Eds. Blakely, Phyllis R. and John N Grant
    Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1982
  • Robinson, Sherry
    “(article on Lozan).”
    Wild West
     Jun 1997: 52-
  • Seeley, Charlotte Palmer, Ed.
    American Women and the US Armed Forces: A Guide to the Records of Military Agencies in the National Archives Relating to American Women
    Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992
  • Smith, Mary
    An Affecting Narrative of the Captivity and Suffering of Mrs. Mary Smith
    Providence, RI: np, 1815
  • Stockel, H. Henrietta
    “Lozen: Apache Warrior Queen.”
    Real West Magazine
     December 1982: 20-22
  • Stockel, H. Henrietta
    Survival of the Spirit:
     Chiricahua Apaches in Captivity
    Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1993
  • Tarble, Helen Mar
    The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862
    St. Paul, MN: np, 1904
  • Turney-High, Harry Holbert
    Primitive War: Its Practices and Concepts
    Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991
  • Vaughn, J. W.
    With Crook at the Rosebud
    Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1956
  • Wallis, Wilson D.
    “The Canadian Dakota.”
    Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
     41.Part 1 (1947)
  • Weinstein, Laurie and Christie White, Eds.
    Wives and Warriors: Women and the Military in the United States and Canada
    Bergin & Garvey, 1997