Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism gender as Lissa atones for her

as Lissa atones for her own crimes and reckons with generations of trauma

Drawing references and inspiration from the oral stories of the Lakota tradition

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What a wonderful work and what a welcome new voice

Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism gender as Lissa atones for herOklahoma 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