This wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contemporary literature, art, and performance for an emerging Indigenous feminist project.

Indigenous Feminism: Theorizing the Issues / Shari M. Huhndorf and Cheryl SuzackPart 1: Politics1 From the Tundra to the Boardroom to Everywhere in Between: Politics and the Changing Roles of Inuit Women in the Arctic / Minnie Grey2 Native Women and Leadership: An Ethics of Culture and Relationship / Rebecca Tsosie3 “But we are your mothers, you are our sons”: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Nation in Early Cherokee Women’s Writing / Laura E. Donaldson4 Indigenous Feminism: The Project / Patricia Penn Hilden and Leece M. LeePart 2: Activism5 Affirmations of an Indigenous Feminist / Kim Anderson6 Indigenous Women and Feminism on the Cusp of Contact / Jean Barman7 Reaching Toward a Red-Black Coalition Feminism: Anna Julia Cooper’s “Woman versus the Indian” / Teresa Zackodnik8 Emotion Before the Law / Cheryl Suzack9 Beyond Feminism: Indigenous Ainu Women and Narratives of Empowerment in Japan / ann-elise lewallenPart 3: Culture10 Indigenous Feminism, Performance, and the Politics of Memory in the Plays of Monique Mojica / Shari M. Huhndorf11 “Memory Alive”: An Inquiry into the Uses of Memory by Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault12 To Spirit Walk the Letter and the Law: Gender, Race, and Representational Violence in Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman / Julia Emberley13 Painting the Archive: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras / Pamela McCallum14 “Our Lives Will Be Different Now”: The Indigenous Feminist Performances of Spiderwoman Theater / Katherine Young Evans15 Bordering on Feminism: Space, Solidarity, and Transnationalism in Rebecca Belmore’s Vigil / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch16 Location, Dislocation, Relocation: Shooting Back with Cameras / Patricia DemersIndex

A pioneering text…Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture is a comprehensive, inclusive, heterogeneous, and valuable collection for anyone studying Indigenous issues or histories, feminisms, cultural studies and criticism, decolonization, or literary studies.

A much needed and important addition to the scholarship of the Indigenous renaissance, this collection illuminates the effects of the colonial experience and contemporary politics, culture, and activism on Indigenous women’s lives. The contributors poignantly re-think and re-member Indigenous women’s roles, responsibilities, and resilience in stories, activism, and artistic expressions across tribal boundaries that contribute significantly to critical Indigenous feminism.