Critically Sovereign

<div><i>Critically Sovereign</i> traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender sexuality and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty self-determination and epistemology. Several essays use a range of literary and legal texts to analyze the production of colonial space the biopolitics of Indianness and the collisions and collusions between queer theory and colonialism within Indigenous studies. Others address the U.S. government's criminalization of traditional forms of Diné marriage and sexuality the Iñupiat people's changing conceptions of masculinity as they embrace the processes of globalization Hawai'i's same-sex marriage bill and stories of Indigenous women falling in love with non-human beings such as animals plants and stars. Following the politics of gender sexuality and feminism across these diverse historical and cultural contexts the contributors question and reframe the thinking about Indigenous knowledge nationhood citizenship history identity belonging and the possibilities for a decolonial future.<br><br>Contributors. Jodi A. Byrd Joanne Barker Jennifer Nez Denetdale Mishuana Goeman  J. Kēhaulani Kauanui Melissa K. Nelson Jessica Bissett Perea Mark Rifkin</div>