Literary works discussed: Ceremony by Lesley Marmon Silko, In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich, and The Last Standing Woman by Winona LaDuke.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2018, pp. 54-71
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Describes Miranda’s tribal memoir as an act of resistance which disrupts archival and mainstream narratives around Indigenous nations, dispossession, and human-land relationships. Focuses of female voices and perspectives, and on narrative sovereignty.
Decolonization, vol. 7, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water, 2018, pp. 1-18
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Introduction to the special issue “Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water,” discusses water as a fundamental piece in decolonization and as central to autonomy, sovereignty, resistance, and to the survival of Indigenous nations.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 4, Fall, 2018, pp. 454-487
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Article explores the unique structure of land tenure developed within the Penobscot Nation; this dual land system allowed for both private lots and land held in commons, it also allowed married Indigenous women to own property in the 1800s.