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...Renya Ramirez Abstract Too often there is the assumption in Native communities that we as indigenous women should defend a tribal nationalism that ignores sexism as part of our very survival as women as well as our liberation from colonization. In contrast, in this essay, I assert that race, tribal...

...Joanne Barker Abstract Drawing from Native feminist theories and sovereignty studies, this essay examines the 1983 and 1985 amendments and the activism that led to their development and passage as an instance of the co-constitutive relationship of gender and sovereignty. By looking at how...

...Joanne Barker Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 JOANNE BARKER Gender,Sovereignty,and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism In 1876, the Canadian Parliament amended the 1868 Indian Act to establish patrilineality as the criterion for determining Indian status and all...

... feminisms. Written from a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) feminist perspective, the essay looks to the foundational work of Kanaka Maoli scholar-activist Haunani-Kay Trask as a too often overlooked theorist of settler colonialism writ broadly. The essay also looks more specifically at Trask’s theorizing...

... knowledge) and ideological (the interconnectedness of people, the earth, and culture) constructs enable communal paradigms rather than individualistic or gendered identities to rise to the fore. Given these parameters, how can the testimonies of native women's lives as artists inform debates of indigenous...

... knowledge) and ideological (the interconnectedness of people, the earth, and culture) constructs enable communal paradigms rather than individualistic or gendered identities to rise to the fore. Given these parameters, how can the testimonies of native women’s lives as artists inform debates of indigenous...

... these assertions in order to underpin scholarly readings of literature by Native American authors. My article close reads Louise Erdrich’s 2012 novel The Round House , the narrative of which oscillates around the rape of an Ojibwe woman by a non-Native man. While this topic lends itself to a critical reading using...

...Frances M. Beal; Loretta J. Ross Abstract In this oral history, Frances M. Beal describes her unique childhood as the daughter of parents of refugee Jewish, African American, and Native American descent. The interview focuses on her activism in the United States and in France, including founding...

...Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. Abstract Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1843–after 1909) was America's first professional sculptor of African and Native American descent. She staked a claim at the highest level of neoclassical art. This usually meant competing against men who vehemently opposed women competing...

...Cheryl Toman Abstract In 1978, Cameroonian author and playwright Werewere Liking moved to Abidjan, Côte-d'lvoire where she was able to find an artistic freedom and energy that was not possible at the time in her native Cameroon. In Abidjan, she created the artistic center and residence known...

... of these antimilitarism campaigns for the study of transnational feminisms as well as Asian American and Pacific Islander studies. First, the protests of Mink and Native Hawaiian activists against U.S. militarism in the Pacific represented gendered critiques of U.S. empire, although in different ways. Second, Mink’s...

... and the native in the early essays as necessarily divisive post-colonial critique, but they read Kincaid’s final essay as an attempt to transcend such divisions. Many have lauded Kincaid’s call to throw off old categories and focus on shared (biological) humanity, yet this very category of “human” has been...

... currently working in research universities across the United States. Building on the literature on linguistic discrimination and the theoretical framing of LangCrit, the authors exemplify instances of linguistic discrimination resulting from a member of the majority culture asserting their native speaker...

... that is a methodological pivot for conducting trauma-based gender-based violence research in a decolonial context, which calls for an end to narratives of trauma that are severed from the settler colonial project of Native land dispossession and genocide. Works Cited Anzaldúa Gloria . 1987 . Borderlands / La...

..., fundamentalisms,3 WTO protests, censorship of"foreign" influences, calls for the preservation of national cultures abound. 4 In the realm of nature, there is increasing attention to the destruction of forests, conservation, preservation of native forests and lands, the commodification of organisms, and concern...

... You." THE CENTRALITY OF MIXEDBLOOD EXPERIENCE The dedication in Louis Owens's OtherDestiniesU: nderstandinthgeAmericanIndianNovel(1992), reads: "For mixed bloods, the next generation." This promise reveals the central importance of mestizajeto current discussions of Native American subjectivity (who...

... of Delegitimization , edited by Rosenfeld Alvin H. , 84 – 112 . Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press . Wolfe Patrick . 2006 . “ Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native .” Journal of Genocide Research 8 , no. 4 : 387 – 409 . 4 Palestinian Feminist Collective...

.... Women congregated in the compound of the traditional king and Sole Native Authority, AlakeAdemola, to sing abusive songs, and they sent petitions and letters to the press (Okonjo 1976; Van Allen 1976; Mba 1982). It was one of the longest sustained protests by women- nine months at its most intensive...

..., and Gender: A Native Feminist Approach to Belonging," by Renya Ramirez, calls for a "Native feminist consciousness" that breaks down what she calls the categorical hierarchies that privilege "race" and "tribal nation" over women's concerns and deny the feminist aspirations Native women. This essay...

... in the Netherlands, the U.S.A. and the Caribbean. DARLENE PAGAN left the country after acquiring her doctorate in the Humanities to study and translate in Mexico, and to avoid the job market. After a reluctant return, she teaches, writes, tries to stay out of the Texas heat, and travels to her native Chicago...