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Article: "I Give You Back": Indigenous Women Writing to Survive
- Article from:
- Studies in American Indian Literatures
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright University of Nebraska Press Winter 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The University of Alberta recently hosted a conference called Indigenous Women and Feminism: Culture, Activism, and Politics.1 Although the call for papers stated that "indigenous women and feminist issues remain undertheorized within contemporary feminist critical theory," a colleague reminded me that Indigenous women and feminist issues have not been undertheorized, at least not in our own communities; we have always theorized our lives.2 After considering her standpoint, I recognized how the academy has led Indigenous women to believe that the various ways we use language to interpret the world or produce knowledge are not acts of theorizing, a tendency that points to problems in the way ...