Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations

Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our NationsDominant history would have us believe that colonialism belongs to a previous era that has long come to an end. But as Native people become mobile, reservation lands become overcrowded and the state seeks to enforce means of containment, closing its borders to incoming, often indigenous, immigrants. In Mark My Words, Mishuana Goeman traces settler colonialism as an enduring form of gendered spatial violence, demonstrating how it persists in the

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Dez is navigating a new relationship and coming into her identity as a Two-Spirit person

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Lisa DeVille

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2009 Minnesota Book Awards Winner for Poetry

To complicate his fears

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traditional values are a roadmap to career & life success