Dr. Terri M. Baker

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  Many of their accounts will be part of a book compiled by Dr. Terri Baker and Connie Henshaw of Northeastern State University.
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  "The best interviews were gathered by women," Baker said."It apparently was easier for a pioneer woman to relate to another woman as they rocked on the porch or performed household tasks."
  
  Baker , chair of the NSU Department of Languages and Literature, and Henshaw, lecturer in the Department of English, gave a moving presentation of these women's narratives Thursday during the 35th annual Symposium on the American Indian.
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  "They were living universal experiences as women," Baker said."The women thought their experiences were worth recording, and this is an important point."
  
  Some women quoted related their own experiences, while others spoke of their mothers and grandmothers.
  
  "We're not historians," Baker said.
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  Baker and Henshaw have been asked many questions, especially by students and other women, about their research and what pioneer women's lives were like.
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  "That answer was usually yes," Baker said.
  
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  Terri Baker (English), Northeastern State University (OK)

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  Many of their accounts will be part of a book compiled by Dr. Terri Baker and Connie Henshaw of Northeastern State University.
  ...
  "The best interviews were gathered by women," Baker said."It apparently was easier for a pioneer woman to relate to another woman as they rocked on the porch or performed household tasks."
  
  Baker , chair of the NSU Department of Languages and Literature, and Henshaw, lecturer in the Department of English, gave a moving presentation of these women's narratives Thursday during the 35th annual Symposium on the American Indian.
  ...
  "They were living universal experiences as women," Baker said."The women thought their experiences were worth recording, and this is an important point."
  
  Some women quoted related their own experiences, while others spoke of their mothers and grandmothers.
  
  "We're not historians," Baker said.
  ...
  Baker and Henshaw have been asked many questions, especially by students and other women, about their research and what pioneer women's lives were like.
  ...
  "That answer was usually yes," Baker said.
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  Baker said the average person's lifespan during pioneer days was 40 years.
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  Baker said."Did those women think they were brave, or just that they were doing what they thought they should have been doing?"
  
  She said many people have written about pioneer women, but have not let the words of the women themselves come through.
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  Baker and Henshaw have been working on the book for five years.
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  Its genesis came when Baker began searching for her Choctaw roots.
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  You start working on them and you have to be dragged away," Baker said.
  
  The women they write about lived through events that changed the national culture and shaped the way people live today.
  
  "We do believe the communality of these experiences unifies these women on the Oklahoma frontier," Baker said.

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  Published on: 10/13/2008    Last Visited: 10/26/2007  

  TAHLEQUAH - The Northeastern State University Bookstore will hold a book signing for authors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw's latest work "Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma, Stories From the WPA Narratives" from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the University Center.
  
  From thousands of interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration in 1936-37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma, editors Baker and Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived.
  
  Baker, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation, is a professor of English at NSU, where she focuses on American Indian literature.Henshaw, who researches women of the 19th century, is an instructor in the Department of Languages and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts at NSU.
  
  Baker and Henshaw will conduct an informal presentation on their work at noon during the book signing.

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  Published on: 4/23/2007    Last Visited: 4/23/2007  

  Many of their accounts will be part of a book compiled by Dr. Terri Baker and Connie Henshaw of Northeastern State University.
  ...
  "The best interviews were gathered by women," Baker said."It apparently was easier for a pioneer woman to relate to another woman as they rocked on the porch or performed household tasks."
  
  Baker , chair of the NSU Department of Languages and Literature, and Henshaw, lecturer in the Department of English, gave a moving presentation of these women's narratives Thursday during the 35th annual Symposium on the American Indian.
  ...
  "They were living universal experiences as women," Baker said."The women thought their experiences were worth recording, and this is an important point."
  
  Some women quoted related their own experiences, while others spoke of their mothers and grandmothers.
  
  "We're not historians," Baker said.
  ...
  Baker and Henshaw have been asked many questions, especially by students and other women, about their research and what pioneer women's lives were like.
  ...
  "That answer was usually yes," Baker said.
  ...
  Baker said the average person's lifespan during pioneer days was 40 years.
  ...
  Baker said."Did those women think they were brave, or just that they were doing what they thought they should have been doing?"
  
  She said many people have written about pioneer women, but have not let the words of the women themselves come through.
  ...
  Baker and Henshaw have been working on the book for five years.
  ...
  Its genesis came when Baker began searching for her Choctaw roots.
  ...
  You start working on them and you have to be dragged away," Baker said.
  
  The women they write about lived through events that changed the national culture and shaped the way people live today.
  
  "We do believe the communality of these experiences unifies these women on the Oklahoma frontier," Baker said.

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  Terri M. Baker(Northeastern State University of Oklahoma) Bingo and other Games of Chance

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  AAUP: Officers & Council - [Cached Version]
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  Terri Baker, Northeastern State University, bakert@nsuok.edu, 2008

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  Terri Baker, Northeastern State University, bakert@nsuok.edu

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  Terri M. Baker (Northeastern State University of Oklahoma) Bingo and other Games of Chance

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  HyWeb: Archives 2nd half 1997 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/10/1997    Last Visited: 12/9/2007  

  First results confirm the breakthrough of Nelly Rodriguez and Terry Baker of Northeastern University in Boston end of last year.

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