Feminism and American Indian Struggles

For our next meeting (Tuesday, August 10th, 5:30pm @ True Colors), we will read Andrea Smith, a reknowned scholar and activist who brings together feminism and American Indian struggles.  We will read the beginning of her book, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (the foreward by Winona LaDuke, the Introduction, and some of Chapter 1) (download here),  as well as a short article: “American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State” (download here).

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