How do Native/Indigenous feminist theories challenge mainstream feminist theory? by

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"Pervasive unease exists within Native communities about mainstream feminims whiteness."

Directly challenging ideals of normalized society outsude of indigenous cultures

“The non-Indiegnous desire to “play Indian” may seem like a passing trend, but it is actually a fundamental conditions of life within settler colonialism, as settlers continuously seek to capitalize one hat they understand as their country’s own “native” resources which include Indigenous cultures and peoples themselves.”

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Native feminist theories and the experimental realities of Indigenous women identified people without absorbing or merely including them into the existing canon of gender and women's studies literature.

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"As Rose says, differ-

ent histories and different concerns of various women must be acknowledged

rather than smoothed over in an attempt to remake Indigenous women as

white women."

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“It is important to note that in many cases, the enforcement of “proper” gender roles is entangled in settler nations’ attempts to limit and manage Indigneous peoples’ claims to land”

“One component of this challenge will be for allies who are settlers to become more familiar and proactive in their critiques of settler colonialism, and to not rely upon Indigneous people to teach them how to become effective allies.”

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"Thus, for Goeman, Indigenous sovereignty means recognizing Native communities as they are currently living across multiple spaces, rather than in the "proper" Native space of a reservation" (23)

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They seem to want to “pioneer,” to “pen-

etrate the frontier” of sexism however they perceive it in cultures other

than their own. They go into situations where they are guests in another

person’s house and try to run the household

“It is also important to recognize that becoming an ally will enquire a long term commitment to structural change and cannot be approached as a “pet” project in the same way certain political causes become trendy at certain times.”

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“the management of indigenous people’s gender roles and sexuality was also key in remaking indigenous people’s into settler state citizens” page 15

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“… American feminism relegates Native Women to a static place history and erases the post-facto violent imposition of American citizenship onto these women”(25-26)”

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"[...], suggesting that modeling Indigenous communities on historic concepts of gender complementarity and balance could be an appropriate path toward decolonization" (22)

“[indigenous feminist theory] sets different liberators goals, ones that do not assume the innocence or desirability of the continued existence of the nation-state” page 16

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"Native feminist theories further point to the fact that the very categories of 'man' and 'woman' are creations of hetropatriarchy and settler colonialism, thereby invalidating the conventional assumptions that women are singularly oppressed by men."

This shows the challenge of cultural differences in understanding what is gender

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"Many Indigenous women activists have refused the false binary between fighting for "women's issues" and fighting for "Native Issues," which for Indigenous women are always coiled together"

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“Native feminist theories reveal that a key aspect of the relentlessness of settler colonialism is the consistency and thus naturalization of heteropatriarchy and heteropaternalism”

“As the Rosebud students remind us, both playing Indian and uncritically “helping”/victimizing Indians are both modes of perpetuating violence against Native peoples through denying them complexity and disregarding their hopes and plans for a future that they were never supposed to realize under settler colonialism”

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“Native Womanism” is a more fitting expression, as it “promotes a prospective vision for a more humane and gender-egalitarian future exemplary of ‘being Indigenous’”

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“[First Nations men] borrowed settler colonial gender norms to strictly divide their First Nations communities into men and women, laying blame on the latter category for being too feminist and thereby complicit with a long history of colonization and racism that imposed, often violently, non-Indigenous principles and institutions on Indigenous peoples.”

Native women activists have begun articulating spiritually based visions of nation and sovereignty… whereas nation states are governed through domination and coercion, indigenous sovereignty and nationhood are predicated on interrelatedness and responsibility

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