Chapter 3 “It Just Piles On, and Piles On, and Piles On”: Young Indigenous Women and the Colonial Imagination

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Broadening Indigenous Feminisms
5. The Uninvited 23
6. Us 24
7. Making Matriarchs at Coqualeetza: Stó:lō Women’s Politics and Histories across Generations 25
8. Sámi Feminist Moments: Decolonization and Indigenous Feminism 48
9. “It Just Piles On, and Piles On, and Piles On”: Young Indigenous Women and the Colonial Imagination 66
10. “Making an Honest Effort”: Indian Homemakers’ Clubs and Complex Settler Engagements 82
11. Queer and Two-Spirit Identities, and Sexuality
12. Reclaiming Traditional Gender Roles: A Two-Spirit Critique 109
13. Reading Chrystos for Feminisms That Honour Two-Spirit Erotics 123
14. Naawenangweyaabeg Coming In: Intersections of Indigenous Sexuality and Spirituality 136
15. Morning Star, Sun, and Moon Share the Sky: (Re)membering Two-Spirit Identity through Culture-Centred HIV Prevention Curriculum for Indigenous Youth 154
16. Multi-Generational Feminisms and Kinship
17. Honouring Our Great-Grandmothers: An Ode to Caroline LaFramboise, Twentieth-Century Métis Matriarch 171
18. on anishinaabe parental kinship with black girl life: twenty-first-century ([de]colonial) turtle island 182
19. Toward an Indigenous Relational Aesthetics: Making Native Love, Still 195
20. Conversations on Indigenous Feminism 207
21. These are my Daughters 231
22. Acknowledgements 233
23. Bibliography 235
24. Contributors 255