compel us to reconsider our own current expectations about what Indian people should be

a message of gratitude that originated with the Native people of upstate New York and Canada and that is still spoken at ceremonial gatherings held by the Iroquois

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embodying these words in her work

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Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Salish (Séliš) compel us to reconsider ourCritically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U. S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self determination, and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space, the biopolitics of "Indianness,"