Oklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their o
Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the
Native women have filled their communities with strength and leadership, both historically and as modern-day warriors. The twelve Indigenous women featured in t
Many people know that some Native American tribes are matrilineal. That means that historically, women had power in governance and some control in her home life
Power is understood to be manifested in a multiplicity of ways: through cosmology, economic control, and formal hierarchy. In the Native societies examined, pow