Native Women and Land : Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (175 pages)
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Land Narrative -- Askîy / Land -- 1: Removals and Long Walks -- 2: "This Scrap of Earth": Louise Erdrich, Environmentalism, and the Postallotment Reservation -- Nîpîy / Water -- 3: "An Ancient Pact, Now Broken": Activism and Environmental Justice in Solar Storms and From the River's Edge -- 4: Climate Change as Indigenous Dispossession for the Twenty-First Century: The United Houma Nation of Louisiana and the Alaska Native Villages of Kivalina and Shishmaref -- Conclusion: "Idle No More": First Nations Women and Environmental Struggles -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
"What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?" Fitzgerald asks this question in her introduction and sets out to answer it in her study of literature and social media by (primarily) Native women who are writing about and often actively protesting against displacement caused both by forced relocation and environmental disaster.
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Indians of North America -- Land tenure. Indian women -- North America -- Social conditions. Indian women -- Political activity -- North America. Environmentalism -- North America.