Native American Women

Abstract

In the most recent review essay in Signs on anthropology, Rayna Rapp notes the coming of age of the anthropology of by citing the enormous production of material in 1978 alone.' After examining more than 350 bibliographic items on Native American women dating from the seventeenth century on, over half of which were produced in the twenty years between 1960 and 1980, I can say that the study of Native American women is flowering.2 But, with Rapp, I can also say that fully developed body of literature looms in the distance. There have been trends, thematic and methodological consistencies, even topical passions in both scholarly and popular writing about Native North American women; in fact, those trends and passions constitute a major problem for scholars and Native Americans alike. But, as with all women's studies, things are changing for the better. Since, for most readers, the literature prior to the sixties is not known, I have framed the review of current work in the context of work done since the seventeenth cen-

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