Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies trickster and activists with cutting-edge research

and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars

and perceptive

bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life

Gathering the Potawatomi Nation explores the recent invigoration of Potawatomi nationhood

and a new foreword by the author—a riveting story that explores tensions between Native American and white cultures

Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies trickster and activists with cutting-edge researchCritically 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,"