Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism

joanne barker (Lenape [Delaware Tribe of Indians]) is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She is currently a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is working on a book manuscript. She has published articles in Cultural Studies; Inscriptions; Wicazô Úa Review: A Native American Studies Journal; American Indian Culture and Research Journal; This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation; and Beyond the Frame. She has edited Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005).