Sarah Carter is professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in both the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Patricia A. McCormack is associate professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta.

List of Illustrations - vii
Acknowledgments - ix
Lifelines: Searching for Aboriginal Women of the Northwest and Borderlands - 5
Sarah Carter and Patricia A. McCormack
PART ONE: Transatlantic Connections
(1) Recovered Identities: Four Métis Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rupert's Land - 29
Susan Berry
(2) Lost Women: Native Wives in Orkney and Lewis - 61
Patricia A. McCormack
(3) Christina Massan's Beadwork and the Recovery of a Fur Trade Family History - 89
Alison K. Brown, with Christina Massan & Alison Grant
PART TWO: Cultural Mediators
(4) Repositioning the Missionary: Sara Riel, the Grey Nuns, and Aboriginal Women
in Catholic Missions of the Northwest - 115
Lesley Erickson
(5) The "Accomplished" Odille Quintal Morison: Tsimshian Cultural Intermediary
of Metlakatla, British Columbia - 135
Maureen L. Atkinson
(6) Obscured Obstetrics: Indigenous Midwives in Western Canada - 157
Kristin Burnett
PART THREE: In the Borderlands
(7) Sophie Morigeau: Free Trader, Free Woman - 175
Jean Barman
(8) The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work,
and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman - 197
Sarah Carter
PART FOUR: The Spirit World
(9) Searching for Catherine Auger: The Forgotten Wife of the Wîhtikôw (Windigo) - 225
Nathan D. Carlson
(10) Pakwâciskwew: A Reacquaintance with Wilderness Woman - 245
Susan Elaine Gray
PART FIVE: Challenging and Crafting Representations
(11) Frances Nickawa: "A Gifted Interpreter of the Poetry of Her Race" - 263
Jennifer S.H. Brown
(12) Blazing Her Own Trail: Anahareo's Rejection of Euro-Canadian Stereotypes - 287
Kristin L. Gleeson
Notes - 313
List of Contributors - 409
Index - 413

This rich collection of essays illuminates the lives of late-eighteenth-century to mid-twentieth-century Aboriginal women, women who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West.
Some essays focus on individuals-a trader, a performer, a non-human woman. Other essays examine cohorts of women-wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories. Exploring the constraints and boundaries these women encountered, the authors engage with difficult and important questions of gender, race, and identity. Collectively these essays demonstrate the complexity of "contact zone" interactions, and they enrich and challenge dominant narratives about histories of the Canadian Northwest.