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Indigenous Interventions and Feminist Methods (Feminism goes beyond "…
Indigenous Interventions and Feminist Methods
Feminism goes beyond "white feminism" ,it also includes the experiences of indigenous people
Indigenous communities experience a variety of issues rather than just the typical, but also important topic of "loss" within their communities.
Indigenous feminist methods include different gender norms and relationships to governance
roles within their communities, to"larger peoplehood.
Indigenous nation to nation
Indigenous nation to settler nation-state to global communities
Issues that are almost always talked about in feminism are issues related to politics, economics, and also sexual assault, poverty, domestic violence, and other "commonplace issues"
What is missing is the struggles and acknowledgement the work of Indigenous peoples
White women fought for "equal rights" that only referred to them. The same offenses they were fighting for were what Indigenous women were experiencing.
Native Feminism methodology; politics of refusal
refusal to "let settlers define subjectivity, communities, politics, history, or stories"
Indian Citizenship Act forced citizenship on Native people. This allowed whites to enforce colonialism on them.
Indigenous people had no specific gender roles, they were "assigned" these gender roles through colonialism
White women gendered feminism
There were various genders within Native communtities
Native and Indigenous critiques
Rhetoric of not acknowledging the work Native women and communities did for the well-being of their people.
rhetoric of tradition: used to exclude and discipline their bodies
culture: not changing
citizenship "permanence"
prefference for one group of people and expecting compliance from another through violence
Indigenous communities promoted the well-being of their people through various roles.
Indigenous people who presentes outside the heteronormative lifestyle were targets of violence.
gendered colonialism