3.4 “Endlessly Creating Our Indigenous Selves”

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)

Online Reading

Artwork

Articles, Books, and Book Chapters

  • Green, Joyce A., ed. Making Space for Indigenous Feminism. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
  • Harjo, Joy, et al. Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
  • Maracle, Lee. I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1996.
  • Grey, Sam. “Decolonising Feminism: Aboriginal Women and the Global ‘Sisterhood.’” Enweyin: The Way We Speak 8, no. 1 (2004).       
  • Gunn Allen, Paula. “She is Us: Thought Woman and the Sustainability of Worship.” In
  • Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future, edited by Melissa K. Nelson. Rochester: Bear & Company, 2008.
  • Jacobs, Renée. “Iroquois Great Law of Peace and the United States Constitution: How the Founding Fathers Ignored the Clan Mothers.” American Indian Law Review 16, no. 2 (1991): 497–531.
  • Lobo, Susan. “Urban Clan Mothers: Key Households in Cities.” American Indian Quarterly 27.3–4 (2003): 505–22.

Films/Videos

  • Caro, Niki. Whale Rider. Los Angeles, CA: Shout! Factory, 2002.
  • Kelly, Tim, and Charlie Soap. The Cherokee Word for Water. Tahlequah, OK: Mankiller Project, 2012.
  • Zeig, Sande. Apache 8. Lincoln, NE: Distributed by VisonMaker, 2011.