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An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became women who changed America.

Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women’s basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World’s Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context to misunderstood icons like Sacagawea and Pocahontas, and to underappreciated figures like Native American activist writer Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Bonnin, farmworkers’ champion Dolores Huerta, and labor and Civil Rights organizer Grace Lee Boggs.

This beautiful, meditative work of history puts girls of all races―and the landscapes they loved―at center stage and reveals the impact of the outdoors on women’s independence, resourcefulness, and vision. For these trailblazing women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, navigating the woods, following the stars, playing sports, and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only joyful pursuits, but also techniques to resist assimilation, racism, and sexism. Lyrically written and full of archival discoveries, Wild Girls evokes landscapes as richly as the girls who roamed in them―and argues for equal access to outdoor spaces for young women of every race and class today.

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"Thoroughly absorbing . . . A beautiful synthesis of diverse women’s experiences, combining history with memoir and a call to action, this brisk, elegant study. . . reframes hard-fought battles for women’s equality through the lens of empowerment provided by the natural world. It begs us to acknowledge the primacy of the earth not only in historical lives but in our own as well."
― New York Times

"Beautiful. . . If you, like Miles, were once a girl who found an expansive sense of wonder and possibility in wild spaces, this is a book to savor. "
― BookPage (starred review)

"Captivating . . . These are wonderful, inspiring stories, and Miles delivers them with verve. A winner of the National Book Award and a MacArthur fellow, Miles is a scholar’s scholar, and her capsule biographies are rich with detail and spiked with insight and revelation."
― Sierra Magazine

"[Miles] writes with a palpable and contagious passion for her subject."
― San Francisco Chronicle

"A book that urges us to see nature ― and also girls ― differently. Best of all, it urges us to see and celebrate them together. "
― Boston Globe

"The stories in Wild Girls. . . quietly expand the idea of what it means to be an outdoors person."
― Outside Magazine

"A sensitive examination of the lives of women―primarily Black and Native American―for whom the natural world served as an 'imagination station and training ground'…a fresh, graceful contribution to women's history."
― Kirkus Reviews

"Evocative and unique . . . an inventive take on what inspired people to challenge norms and agitate for change."
― Publishers Weekly

"The personal stories range from intriguing to downright inspiring―the Native American players of the Fort Shaw basketball team deserve a movie!―but it is the author’s insatiable curiosity and obvious affection for her subjects that will most captivate readers. So many fascinating women of different races are included in this little book. It’s a true treasure! This gem is an obvious choice for teens."
― Booklist

"With delights and surprises at every turn, Wild Girls has given me a new pantheon of heroes to admire and emulate."
― Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World

"A moving meditation on race, history, and possibility; an enticing invitation to seek renewal in green spaces; a rousing exhortation to women and girls to claim freedom in the wild. Tiya Miles offers us a rhapsodic account of nature as a respite from, and remedy for, the failings of society and culture."
― Nicole Eustace, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Covered with Night

"Wild Girls invites readers on a crucial journey of insight and humanity, reminding us how each life―whether enslaved or dispossessed, marginalized or privileged―takes place on this Earth. This reckoning with their pasts illuminates possibilities for our future."
― Lauret Savoy, author of Trace

"Through incredible storytelling and study, Tiya Miles uncovers how girls and women learned new skills and, ultimately, empowerment and peace through their experiences in the natural world."
― Brenda J. Child, author of My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks

"A lovingly rendered and rigorously researched book… These stories are a call to action, a reminder that if we lose our way, Nature is a bridge. I, for one, am rejuvenated. What a gift."
― Carolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces

About the Author

Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University, a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and the author of five prize-winning works, including the National Book Award–winning, best-selling All That She Carried. Miles was the founder and director of ECO Girls, and she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (September 19, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1324020873
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1324020875
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.8 x 0.8 x 8.6 inches
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Tiya Miles is the author of three multiple prize-winning works in the history of early American race relations: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom; The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story; and most recently, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.

She has also written historical fiction: The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts (a Lambda Literary Award Finalist), shared her travels to "haunted" historic sites of slavery in a published lecture series, and written various articles and op-eds (in The New York Times, CNN.com, the Huffington Post) on women’s history, history and memory, black public culture, and black and indigenous interrelated experience.

She is a past MacArthur Foundation Fellow (“genius award”) and Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow and a current National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award recipient. She taught on the faculty of the University of Michigan for sixteen years and is currently a Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University.

Tiya was born and raised in Cincinnati, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, three children, and three pets. She is an avid reader of feminist mysteries, a passionate fan of old houses, and a loyal patron of Graeter’s ice cream in Cincinnati as well as Dairy Queen just about anywhere.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A moving collection of essays
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I absolutely loved this book. Each essay explores the connection between a pioneering, adventurous woman and the natural world. What was Harriet Tubman's relationship to the woods and the stars? Why was it special for Louisa May Alcott to have been outdoorsy? Each essay is a bit of an introductory "sample" after which readers will likely be inspired to learn more.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Outdoors
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In Tiya Miles historical nonfiction book, “Wild Girls,” she theorizes that girls who spend time outside, rather than in traditional gender roles such as being a housewife, raising children and answering to the beck and call of the head of the house; have more freedom to explore their true selves.

Miles gives examples of girls and women who found their voice when allowed to roam in the great outdoors,

At the end of the book, the author gives a list of materials for further reading in alphabetical order.
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5.0 out of 5 stars remarkable historical figures who changed the future, and the present
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Wild Girls
By Tiya miles

Introduction is a poem by Lucille Clifton the earth is a living thing published in the book of life, describes in poetry the beauty of earth.

Preface
The ice bridges, looking at the Ohio River, from family memories of the river freeing solid to more substantial stories of the underground railroad. It shows how the freezing of the river led to freedom and tragedy, featured in Toni Morison’s book Beloved.

Way finders, the explorers that allowed the bid for freedom.
The limitations of race and Geography limit the areas we are welcome with the danger of the environment. The social dangers of alcohol and physical abuse limit the outside world of young girls. Others because of suspicion were prohibited.

The gist of the stories in this book shows how restrictions by society for white, black or native girls caused the strength and holistic physical activity.

chapter 1
STAR GAZERS

Araminta Minty Ross as a child was an adventurer who uses nature to provide a safe place from exploitation and abuse. Changing nature into a helper in her personal struggles. As an adult in her marriage she is known as Harriet Tubbman. She used her knowledge of ecology, and her personal observation to not only save herself, her family and over 80 slaves. Her story continues to be a source of inspiration for the author throughout the book.

The story of falling stars showed the nature of slavery. From the wonder of the event slaves mark their age. To the owners fearing the end of days showed the restricted knowledge of the diaspora of slave families.

Jane Clark had her story written in 1897 by Julia C. Ferris, a white teacher and local educational leader, the manuscript narrates portions of the life of Jane Clark, an enslaved woman who escaped to Auburn in 1859. Shows the reality of enslavement. She was protected as a child by a kind owner. Only to be sold to aid her white owners avoidance of military obligations.

Harriet Jacobs, the slave of Andrew Knox, was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in the fall of 1813. Until she was six years old Harriet was unaware that she was the property of Margaret Horniblow. She shows the danger of exploitation of slaves. Their labor and bodies were used by whims of fractious and violent masters. Harriet Jacobs struggled to avoid the sexual victimization that Dr. Norcom intended to be her fate.

Laura Smith Haviland, a quaker in her writing, shows the nature of growing up between the lines of freedom and slavery.

Chapter 2

Word Smiths

Louisa May Alcott, a wild child, used inspiration from her own life in her famous novels, Little women and its sequels. She struggled against female role models and ideals. This started part of the change to suffrage and women's rights. Placid but dangerous Frog pond is where she became an abolitionist.

Suffrage writers did attempt to remake the images of The stories of Pocahontas and Sacagawea changed the populist look at native female roles, from the Disney portrait of pocahontas and Sacagawea not as permission for exploitation but as women of strength and character. There are more later descriptions of the lives of these two women and the reality of their personal and emotional struggles.

Native american and other activists

Zitkála-Šá, also known as Gertrude Bonnin ,Native American musician, writer and activist who fought for women's suffrage and Indigenous voting rights in the early 20th century. As a Dakota writer, competed in state wide competitions. She won second prize. She showed the intelligence of avocation. She later wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. The later chapter will show this as a contrast with other native american experiences.

Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was born in Guangzhou (Canton), at only 16, advocating for Asian Americans to march in the 1912 suffrage parade.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was an advocate for suffrage, and fought against lenching.

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, her manifesto “A Voice from the South”, and first African American outdoor girl club, while being a professor she established campfire girls.

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, also known as Bamewawagezhikaquay was a child of indigenous eastern woodland community. She was part Irish, but her exposure to the wilderness caused problems with her husband's political views. She loved the nature of her wilderness, and subtle political techniques. She wrote poetry of the land and environment. She used her poetry to show the knowledge of her homeland and nature poetry. Wrote her poetry in her native language. Lake superior is the juxtaposition of native character and poetry.

Mamie Garvin Fields personal account of southern upbringing,Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir. The story of her golden childhood was tempered by the treatment of her ancestors during the Civil War. Showed a beautiful secret room in the day time, and a boogeyman's pit at night. Showed the history of her family that haunted and politicized her.

Tony Morrison was the person to label these words smiths, writers are like flood waters that show the nature of the world, and its elemental forces.

Chapter 3
Game changers
Anna Julia Cooper, Give the girls a chance. In her book about the south. In 1892 a teacher and formerly enslaved child. Education could better the race and society. The limitations by labels cause more of the social inequity of the world.

Genevieve Healy, in 1888 the government pushed her tribe into reservations in Montana and wrote about the Native American school experience. Education of Native American children in forced schools caused many problems. The federal indian boarding schools, carceral institutions that removed children from their homes and forced the eradication of their culture. She is a member of the girl's basketball team at the Fort Shaw school in Montana.

Zitkála-Šá, red bird also known as a Dakota student at the Indian boarding school Gertrude Bonnin essay collection first published in 1921 American Indian stories. Wrote in naturalistic language in her poetry about the separation from her family and culture.

Josephine Langley, a ball player for her small fort boarding school, represented and challenged anthropological theory of race superiority. She trained her girls to more traditional forms of team work and physical strength.

Chapter 4
Bluemoon

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. The first and only black writer of science fiction for much of her career sheWon McArthur genius grant . First and only for the McArthur fiction writer. Published 12 novels over time. Was the first African American Black speculative fiction and African futurism. Nasa named the site of a landing for Mars for rover perseverance. She had concern about the natural world, she was an environment and containment writer.

Dolores Huerta, Co-founder of the United Farm Workers Association, Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is one of the most influential labor activists of the 20th century and a leader of the Chicano civil rights movement.

Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s.
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