Papers presented at the National Symposium on Aboriginal Women of Canada, University of Lethbridge, October, 1989. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Colonization of a native woman scholar -- Metis women at Bathoche, 1870 to 1920 -- Subsistence, secondary literature, and gender bias: the Saulteaux -- First Nations women of prairie Canada in the early reserve years, the 1870s to the 1920s: a preliminary inquiry -- Life in harmony with nature -- An examination of sport for aboriginal females on the Six Nations reserve, Ontario, from 1968 to 1980 -- Aboriginal women's writing and the cultural politics -- Art or craft: the paradox of the Pangnirtung weave shop -- Voices through time -- Changing employment of Cree women in Moosonee -- Exploitation of the oil and gas frontier: its impact on Lubicon Lake Cree women -- Gender and the paradox of residential education -- Recommended reading.