We Are Dancing for You
Book description
"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…
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Cutcha Risling Baldy is shaking up the terms of engagement for Indigenous cultural reclamation in far Northern California. A Hupa, Yurok, and Karuk scholar and an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, Risling Baldy describes both the why and the how of Indigenous cultural survival in this book. Through a detailed description of girls’ coming-of-age ceremonies, Risling Baldy’s commitment to resisting settler colonialism shows a path forward for Indigenous communities.
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