Grandmothers Of A New World By Beth Brant
[1] Mohawk writer Beth Brant is on a mission, a mission to redeem the reputations of Powhatan princess Pocahontas and Cherokee Beloved Woman Nancy Ward. Touted as "good friends" of the whiteman in white legend because of actions complicit with white welfare, these two famous Native American women are simultaneously scorned as "traitors" to their race. In "Grandmothers of a New World" (1988, 1994), Brant joins with such other redeemers as Hanay Geiogamah and Monique Mojica in combating white "history" about and white "adoption" of such influential Native American women. For mixed-race lesbian Brant -- whose missionary writing career literally began at the late age of forty with a dramatic highway meeting with and call by Eagle -- Pocahontas