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 case study of Zapotec women in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, tracing how mining reshapes land, water, and community life - and how refusal sustains relations beyond extraction.

Through Kwezens’s maple-sap story and her own schooling, Simpson shows how land, kinship and Nishnaabeg knowledge shape education - and how colonial schooling suppresses Indigenous intelligence.

Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill show how settler rule reshapes land, kinship, gender, and knowledge - and why feminist inclusion alone cannot undo those relations.

Andrea Smith’s 2005 essay challenges the feminist/nonfeminist binary and asks how Native women’s diverse political frameworks make sovereignty central to debates about gender justice.