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I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism

Lee Maracle · 1988

A Native woman's sociological and personal examination of colonialism's impacts on Indigenous women, exploring womanhood, culture, spirituality, and sovereignty through poetry, stories, and essays. Maracle presents a feminist perspective rooted in her own lived experience and Squamish cultural heritage.

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What this book knows

A Native woman names colonialism, racism, and patriarchy as interlocking violences that must be refused—not survived quietly, but resisted with voice, body, and Indigenous tradition.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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self-and-identity

Each time I confronted white colonial society I had to convince them of my validity as a human being. It was the attempt to convince them that made me realize I was still a slave.
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I AM WOMAN! Not the woman on the billboard for whom physical work is damning—but a woman for whom mobility, muscular movement, physical prowess are equal to the sensuous pleasure of being alive.
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For us racism is not an ideology in the abstract, but a very real and practical part of our lives. The pain, the effect, the shame are tangible, measurable and murderous.
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Genocide, confinement and cultural prohibition are not part of my ways. We were almost obliterated by your ancestors. I refuse to vanish.
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belonging

There are a number of amazing women struggling to re-create and re-build the family systems of our past—in a terrible vacuum created by the absence of context and the death of elders.
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You taught my child that here we were cannibals. I had to tell my daughters their great-great-granny had never eaten a single soul.
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