Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism

Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, ActivismOklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries old legacy of colonial disempowerment, and how they are seen and portrayed by themselves and others. Mihesuah first examines how American Indigenous women have been perceived and depicted by non Natives, including scholars, and by themselves. She then

Along the way

settlers from the East are arriving daily

For Indigenous Minds Only

Many plant knowledge treatises are thin soup

and historians

musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide

as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans

The sun on your face

Foreword by Louise Erdrich

and the rivers run”

Kai Minosh Pyle

“Through her passionate yet straightforward and enticingly simple prose