Ravens Talking: Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies

Editors:

● Rebecca Johnson
● Debra McKenzia
● Val Napoleon (Indigenous Canadian; First Nations; Gitxsan (Gitksan); Cree (Nehiyawak);)

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● Emily Snyder

Language:

English

Format: Paperback

Text Content Territories: Indigenous Canadian; First Nations; Cree (Nehiyawak); Haudenosaunee (Iroquois);

Status: Coming Soon

Reading Level: N/A

Other Categories: Adult Book | Books | Educator Resources | College / University Literature | Indigenous Peoples | Indigenous Peoples in Canada | First Nations | Cree (Nehiyawak) | Gitxsan (Gitksan) | Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) | Indigenous Studies | Law / Politics | Women's Studies | Non-Fiction | Indigenous Peoples | Indigenous Peoples in Canada | First Nations | LGBTQ2S+ | Social and Cultural Studies | Women's Studies

ISBN/Barcode: 9781487551476

Year Published: 2025

Synopsis:

While awareness of the sexual and gendered colonial violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people has grown, the field of Indigenous law and beyond has yet to fully engage with Indigenous feminisms, gender, and sexuality in a sustained way. Ravens Talking challenges this gap, treating Indigenous feminisms as essential, insightful, and deeply transformative.

Through critical feminist analyses, this book examines key issues in Indigenous law, demonstrating how legal understandings shift when gender is consistently, meaningfully, and creatively engaged. The contributors to this collection confront the forms of power shaping these essential conversations and bring to the fore intergenerational Indigenous feminisms; Indigenous law and gender; the forms of expression and translation between and across legal and political worlds; and the rich array of disagreements and conflicts between Indigenous women. Ravens Talking intends to capture the complexities arising from Indigenous feminisms in living contexts to provoke questions and develop critical perspectives.

Both intellectually rigorous and practically grounded, Ravens Talking is a vital contribution encouraging dialogue on Indigenous legal traditions, justice, and sovereignty.

Educator Information
Chapters
1. Indigenous Women Talking: The Work of Indigenous Feminisms in the World
2. Introduction: Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies
3. Nêhiyaw Ceremony, Gendered Protocols, and Nêhiyaw Law
4. Understanding Indigenous Womxn’s Economic Sovereignty through Story
5. Giving Voice to Jigonsaseh: A Feminine Perspective on the Haudenosaunee Legal Order
6. What if Survivors Wrote the Laws? An Indigenous Feminist Audit of Tribal Sexual Assault in the United States
7. Deliberating Feminist Legal Strategies in R v Barton
8. Visualizing Violence Against Indigenous Women: Documentary Film as Disruption in Finding Dawn and American Outrage
9. Sovereign Refusals: Spending Time with Apak in the Journals of Knud Rasmussen
10. Thoughts and Questions and Questions

Additional Information
272 pages | 6.00" x 9.00" | Paperback