American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 2, Settler Colonial Biopolitics and Indigenous Lifeways, 2018, pp. 57-76
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Author examines the work of Sarah Winnemucca, a Northern Paiute author, lecturer, interpreter, and army scout; argues that Winnemucca challenges the stereotypes of Indigenous authenticity which have been used as a strategy of settler biopolitics.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 1-23
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Discusses the process of theorizing life experience through storytelling. Asserts that the stories told by Indigenous women about their lives should be considered as theories for the purposes of research, writing, and living.
Looks at the culture of the area prior to the illegal evictions in 1984, history of advocacy by and for sex trade workers in Vancouver, and the authors’ struggle to secure reparations, an apology and a permanent memorial. Also discusses these issues in the context of ‘reconciliation’ and the consequences of racialization and criminalization.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 30, no. 1, Spring, 2018, pp. 50-70
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Draws on Tallchief’s autobiography and examines the role that she, using her cultural influence to exert her agency, played in complicating the colonial princess – squaw dichotomy imposed on Indigenous women in the United States.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall, 2018, pp. 16-36
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Discusses the texts Halfbreed (Campbell, 1973) and Prison of Grass (Adams, 1975), contrasting their treatments of gender in the discussion of colonial violence; calls on contemporary scholars to consider in their works “the way gender is animated in a decolonizing political movement.”
Journal of Indigenous Social Development, vol. 7, no. 1, 2018, pp. 42-57
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The experiences of three different participants in an intergenerational, multi-week research workshop which explored how the concept of wellness is understood are portrayed through the lenses of a girl, a mother, and a grandmother.