| 词条 | Gladys Cook |
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Gladys Evelyn Taylor Cook (1929 - 2009) was a Canadian Dakota elder and activist. Her Dakota names were Topah-hde-win and Wakan-mani-win. Cook was a native of the Sioux Valley First Nation in Manitoba. At the age of four she was sent to residential school, where she remained until she was sixteen. While there, she was forced to deny her heritage.[1] While there, she was raped four times, the first time in 1937. After leaving school she moved to Yankton, South Dakota to work as a hospital housekeeper. She married a local, Cliff Cook, also Dakota, with whom she had three children; he was alcoholic, and beat her, so eventually she left him and moved to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, to work at another residential school. She left her children with family during this time.[2] Cook would become a leader in the Anglican Church. From 1978 until 1996 she coordinated the National Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program in Portage la Prairie. She also educated people about the abuses which went on in residential schools.[1] In 1991 she confronted her rapist at a school reunion, ultimately forgiving him. Cook died in Portage la Prairie.[2] In her life Gladys was involved in different activities and with different groups such as:Alcohol and Drug Committee; the Youth Justice Committee. [3] She was a member of the Anglican Church and was always helping Indians who were abused at the residential schools.[4] AwardsDuring her life Gladys won a few awards including:YM/YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Order of Manitoba and the Order of Manitoba.[5] References1. ^1 {{cite book|author1=Susan Hill Lindley|author2=Eleanor J. Stebner|title=The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4hLAtDBHskC&pg=PA134|year=2008|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|isbn=978-0-664-22454-7|page=47}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Gladys}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.anglican.ca/about/departments/cir/video/gladys/bio/|title=Gladys Cook Biography - The Anglican Church of Canada|publisher=|accessdate=24 August 2018}} 3. ^[https://www.anglican.ca/about/departments/cir/video/gladys/bio/ Gladys Cook Biography] 4. ^[https://www.anglicanjournal.com/native-activist-gladys-cook-dies-8541/ Native activist Gladys Cook dies] 5. ^Memorable Manitobans: Gladys Evelyn Taylor Cook “Topahdewin” (1929-2009) 9 : 1929 births|2009 deaths|Dakota people|Canadian women activists|Canadian human rights activists|People from Portage la Prairie|Canadian Anglicans|20th-century Anglicans|21st-century Anglicans |
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