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Native American Feminism
Native American feminism or Native feminism is, at its root, understanding how gender plays an important role in indigenous communities both historically and in modern-day. As well, Native American feminism deconstructs the racial and broader stereotypes of indigenous peoples, gender, sexuality, while also focusing on decolonization and breaking down the patriarchy and pro-capitalist ideology. As a branch of the broader Indigenous feminism, it similarly prioritizes decolonization, indigenous sovereignty, and the empowerment of indigenous women and girls in the context of Native American and First Nations cultural values and priorities, rather than white, mainstream ones. A central and urgent issue for Native feminists is the Missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis. Overview Native feminist Renya K. Ramirez, writes that, e word Native in the term "Native feminisms" s usedin order to concentrate on our similar experiences as Native women all over the Americas. But whethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Feminism
Indigenous feminism is an intersectional theory and practice of feminism that focuses on decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and human rights for Indigenous women and their families. The focus is to empower Indigenous women in the context of Indigenous cultural values and priorities, rather than mainstream, white, patriarchal ones. In this cultural perspective, it can be compared to womanism in the African-American communities. Indigenous communities are diverse. While some women continue to hold considerable power within their tribal nations and traditional societies, many others have lost their leadership roles within their communities; others may live outside of traditional communities altogether. Women who hold power in their communities, or in the world at large, may also have differing goals from those who are still struggling for basic human rights. Modern Indigenous feminism has developed as a communal worldview that prioritizes the issues faced by Indigenous wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Country
Indian country is any of the self-governing Native American or American Indian communities throughout the United States. Colloquially, this refers to lands governed by federally recognized tribes and state recognized tribes. The concept of tribal sovereignty legally recognizes tribes as distinct, independent nations within the United States. As a legal category, it includes "all land within the limits of any Indian reservation", "all dependent Indian communities within the borders of the United States", and " all Indian allotments, the Indian titles to which have not been extinguished." Native Tribes which are not recognized by the government can seek recognition. Multiple tribes that had their relationship with the federal government terminated have not regained federal recognition. The American military has since applied the term to sovereign land outside its control, including land in Vietnam. Legal classification This legal classification defines American Indian triba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sterilization Of Native American Women
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and collaborating physicians sustained a practice of performing sterilizations on Native American women, in many cases without the free and informed consent of their patients. Other tactics for sterilization include when healthcare providers neglecting to tell women they were going to be sterilized, or other forms of coercion such as threatening to take away their welfare or healthcare. In some cases, women were misled into believing that the sterilization procedure was reversible. In other cases, sterilization was performed without the adequate understanding and consent of the patient, including cases in which the procedure was performed on minors as young as 11 years old. The American eugenics movement set the foundations for the use of sterilization as a form of birth control, or a method to control populations of poor and minority women. This practice was widely seen in America throughout the early and middle decades o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Victimization Of Native American Women
Native American women encounter a disproportionate level of sexual violence from verbal abuse to physical harm, including but not limited to domestic and sexual assaults. Such violations not only result in lasting detrimental effects on the individuals subjected to them but also reverberate throughout their entire community, exacerbating social challenges. One proposal emphasizes the reinstatement of tribal authority in the prosecution of crimes committed within Indigenous territories, a strategy intended to foster accountability and justice within the community. Advocates are lobbying for legislative amendments to ensure that non-Indigenous men are held responsible under local or national laws. Statistics Amnesty International's "Maze of Injustice" Report Amnesty International, in its report "Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA", presented survivors' voices of sexual violence. This research, conducted in 2005 and 2006 ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Americans And Women's Suffrage In The United States
Native American women influenced early women's suffrage activists in the United States. The Iroquois, Iroquois nations, which had an Egalitarianism, egalitarian society, were visited by early Feminism, feminists and Women's suffrage, suffragists, such as Lydia Maria Child, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. These women discussed how Native Americans in the United States, Native American women had authority in their own cultures at various feminist conventions and also in the news. Native American women became a symbol for some suffrage activists. However, other white suffragists actively excluded Native American people from the movement. When the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, suffragist Zitkala-Sa (Yankton Sioux), commented that Native Americans still had more work to do in order to vote. It was not until 1924 that many Native Americans could vote under the Indian Citizenship Act. In many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cutcha Risling Baldy
Cutcha Risling Baldy is a Native American associate professor and department chair of Native American studies at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata, California. Risling Baldy focuses her research on Indigenous feminisms, California Indians, Environmental Justice, and Decolonization. Her most notable contribution to the study of Indigenous feminisms was her debut book in 2018, ''We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-age Ceremonies''. At the 2019 Native American Indigenous Studies Associate Conference, she was awarded “Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies”. Risling Baldy is also a prominent proponent of the Land Back movement committed to restoring indigenous lands to tribal nations in the United States. Her expertise has been featured in interviews with National Public Radio and various podcasts including For the Wild and Indiginae. Education Risling Baldy received her Ph.D. in Native American studies with an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Deer
Sarah Deer (born November 9, 1972) is a Native American lawyer from the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She is a "University Distinguished Professor" of Indigenous Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Kansas, where she also received her B.A. and J.D. Deer began her efforts of 25+ years supporting Native sexual assault victims while volunteering as a rape crisis advocate during her undergraduate degree, unfolded in her most recent book, ''The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America'' (2015). She was a 2014 MacArthur fellow and has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2019. Deer advocates on behalf of survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence, primarily within Native American communities. She has been credited for her "instrumental role" in the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which "recognizes that the inherent right of tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrystos
Chrystos (; born November 7, 1946, as Christina Smith) is a two-spirit writer and activist whose work explores Native American civil rights, social justice, and feminism. They are of mixed Menominee– Lithuanian/ Alsace–Lorraine heritage. Chrystos is also a lecturer, writing teacher, and artist. Life Chrystos was born off-reservation in San Francisco, California, was taught to read by their self-educated father, and began writing poetry at age nine. Chrystos had a difficult childhood, including being sexually abused by a relative. They lived with their abusive mother, Virginia (née Lunkes), who was of Lithuanian and Alsatian descent, and their father of Menominee heritage, Fletcher L. Smith, who was a World War II veteran. At the age of seventeen, Chrystos was placed into a psychiatric hospital. They fell into drug addiction, alcoholism, and prostitution during this time. They were re-institutionalized several more times before deciding it was ineffective in helping their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audra Simpson
Audra Simpson is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her work engages with Indigenous politics in the United States and Canada and cuts across anthropology, Indigenous studies, Gender studies, and Political science. She has won multiple awards for her book, ''Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States.'' She has also won multiple teaching awards from Columbia University, including the Mark Van Doren Award making her the second anthropologist to win the honour. She is a citizen of the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Nation. Education Simpson completed her BA in anthropology from Concordia University in 1993. She subsequently joined the MA program in Anthropology at McGill University. She received her PhD in anthropology from McGill in 2004 for her dissertation, ''To the Reserve and Back Again: Kahnawake Mohawk Narratives of Self, Home and Nation'', supported by Dartmouth College's Charles Eastman Fellowship and the American Anthropological Assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmental Justice
Environmental justice is a social movement that addresses injustice that occurs when poor or marginalized communities are harmed by hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses from which they do not benefit. The movement has generated hundreds of studies showing that exposure to environmental harm is inequitably distributed. Additionally, many marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ community, are disproportionately impacted by natural disasters. The movement Environmental racism in the United States, began in the United States in the 1980s. It was heavily influenced by the Civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and focused on environmental racism within rich countries. The movement was later expanded to consider gender, LGBTQ people, international environmental injustice, and inequalities within marginalized groups. As the movement achieved some success in rich countries, environmental burdens were shifted to the Global North and Global Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and academic from Canada. She is also known for her work with Idle No More protests. Simpson is a faculty member at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. She lives in Peterborough. Early life Leanne is an off-reserve member of Alderville First Nation, where her grandmother Audrey Williamson (née Franklin), was born in 1925. Simpson's great-grandfather, Hartley Franklin later relocated to Peterborough to work on canoes when Audrey was three. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson was born and raised in Wingham, Ontario by her Nishnaabeg mother, Dianne Simpson, and her father, Barry Simpson, who is of Scottish ancestry. In the early 1990s, Leanne's grandmother and mother regained their legal Indian status after the legislation of Bill C-31. Leanne and several of her other family members regained their Indian status after Bill C-3 became law in 2011. Their children regained their status after Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
