Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism ed. by Carol Williams

In a recent editorial for Daily Kos, Denise Oliver Velez observed, “We still learn little of Native Americans in our history classes, and of Ndn [Indian] women, not much beyond Pocahontas and Sacagawea. Rarely is that history linked to living Native American women and their contemporary lives and struggles. Some historians, activists and Native American and Women’s Studies scholars are trying to change that and are beginning to teach the history and triumphs of the ‘invisible among the invisible’ of First Nations’ people” (“Women’s History: Native Americans,” Daily Kos, March 2, 2014, www . dailykos.com/story/2014/03/02/1280488/-Women-s-History-Native-Americans). The seventeen essays in Indigenous Women and Work: From Labor to Activism, edited by Carol Williams, exemplify this trend and extend it to the aboriginal peoples of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Specifically engaging the field of labor history, the collection challenges “the multitude of ways Indigenous women—as colonized workers, as Indigenous, and...