What This Awl Means

Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village

Author Janet D. Spector

Minnesota Historical Society Press (June 1, 1993)

This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis.

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"An eloquent restoration of women's voices: the voice of the female archaeologist and that of the woman who used the awl. Together they tell an important story."
Janet Catherine Berlo, American Indian Culture and Research Journal

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• 173 pages
• 6.25 x 9.5 inches
• ISBN: 9780873512787