Critically Sovereign : Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Playwriting Keeshig surprises his mom by

Keeshig surprises his mom by sharing that the Ojibwe pterodactyls are indeed the thunderbirds and that they are the heartbeat of Nanaboozhoo

and they will likely say mixed race

but his tusks will never be the same

” There is a lifetime in these poems

Developed at and around the University of Victoria

Critically Sovereign : Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Playwriting Keeshig surprises his mom byUsing a range of historical, literary, and legal texts, the contributors to Critically Sovereign trace the ways in which gender is inextricably linked to Indigenous politics and U. S. and Canadian colonialism, showing how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self determination, and epistemology. Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of