Critically Sovereign

Joanne Barker is Professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, the author of Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity, also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination.

Introduction. Critically Sovereign / Joanne Barker 1 1. Indigenous Hawaiian Sexuality and the Politics of Nationalist Decolonization / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 45 2. Return to "The Uprising at Beautiful Mountain in 1913": Marriage and Sexuality in the Making of the Modern Navajo Nation / Jennifer Nez Denetdale 69 3. Ongoing Storms and Struggles: Gendered Violence and Resource Exploitation / Mishuana R. Goeman 99 4. Audiovisualizing Inupiaq Men and Masculinities On the Ice / Jessica Bissett Perrea 127 5. Around 1978: Family, Culture, and Race in the Federal Production of Indianness / Mark Rifkin 169 6. Loving Unbecoming: The Queer Politics of the Transitive Native / Jodi A. Byrd 207 7. Getting Dirty: The Eco-Eroticism of Women in Indigenous Oral Literatures / Melissa K. Nelson 229 Contributor Biographies 261 Index 263

"Critically Sovereign is not only a necessary reading for those studying Indigenous politics, it should also be considered a required reading for scholars and activists who study race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and colonialism." - Brionca Taylor (Gender & Society) "Through a collective of brilliant voices, the essays in this book grapple with the significance of gender, sexuality, and politics with searing wisdom. Critically Sovereign gives readers a reason to hope for a decolonized tomorrow." - Dianca Potts (Signature) "A powerful and urgently needed anthology. . . . Critically Sovereign is an essential text for anyone engaged in feminist and queer theory or projects of decolonization." - Stephanie Lumsden (American Indian Culture and Research Journal) "Critically Sovereign offers a strong addition to scholarship or graduate-level coursework engaged with global feminisms. . . . Critically Sovereign provides a timely entry point into the seismic stakes and shifts within Native American and Indigenous studies." - Kirisitina Sailiata (Feminist Review) "This collection rejects the elimination of the Indigenous through the erasure of gender and sexuality. For the queer, femme, and two-spirit people at the center of Indigenous movements for autonomy and freedom, this is a deeply important project. Critically Sovereign is an opening salvo in what I hope is a burgeoning intellectual and intersectional field." - Anne Spice (Women's Studies Quarterly) "For those of us seeking to grow our equity work in educational settings, reading essays like those in this collection allow us to privilege-check our own approaches. The denseness of the material aside, each piece acts as a motivator for equity work and as a reminder that this work cannot be done in a vacuum, and can never be complete without an understanding of intersectionality." - Tracey Germa (Education Forum)