Call to Action #105

Establish Indigenous-to-Indigenous trade agreements and networks nationally and internationally.

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Supporting Evidence

A Guide to Inter-Indigenous Co-Labbing

Type of Evidence: Academic Literature

Summary of Key Findings:
The paper examines colonialism’s impact on inter-Indigenous relations in the Northern Plains, critiquing historiographies that silence gendered and community voices while employing Indigenous feminist theories to reconceptualize borderland studies, activate gendered networks, and challenge settler colonial narratives through new reading methods grounded in gender-diverse Indigenous knowledge and relational governance.

Topics & Keywords:
Borderland studies, Gendered networks, Indigenous feminisms, Inter-Indigenous relations, Polykinetic relationalities

Limitations:
Key limitations include the historical oversight of Indigenous women and gender-diverse voices in Iron Alliance historiographies, settler scholars’ avoidance of gender-diverse Indigenous knowledge, use of outdated terms like ‘polyethnic’ that reinforce difference-based understandings, colonial interventions erasing Indigenous kinscapes and shared histories, and the inherent challenges of addressing complexities of memory while critiquing colonial and nationalist rhetorics.

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