Indigenous FeminismPapers

This research critically examines how feminism and social work have historically participated in colonial projects, perpetuating structural violence rooted in white supremacy. The author proposes an Indigenous decolonial feminist framework, emphasizing that social work should reorient its justice goals toward collective liberation and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.

A place-based Indigenous feminist analysis showing that mining violence acts on bodies, water, land, and community relations - and that women’s refusal defends this entire web of life.

Simpson rethinks education through Nishnaabeg knowledge, centering land, story, embodied practice, relational accountability, and Indigenous resurgence.

Arvin, Tuck, and Morrill challenge feminist theory to confront settler colonialism, Indigenous sovereignty, heteropatriarchy, land, and the colonial relations that can be reproduced through knowledge production.

Andrea Smith connects Native feminism with sovereignty, anti-violence organizing, anti-colonial struggle, and social transformation, challenging separations between feminism and Indigenous nationhood.