Humboldt State Professor Cutcha Risling Baldy receives First Book Award
We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-age Ceremonies received the prize for Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference in Aotearoa (New Zealand) this year.
“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 medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories.”
Dr. Risling Baldy is Hupa, Yurok and Karuk and an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California. She is the co-founder of the Native Women’s Collective and is currently an Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University.
For more information or to purchase her book, please visit http://tinyurl.com/yxdw2dq3
