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Carrying Stories of Incarcerated Indigenous Women as Tools for Prison Abolition
- Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 41, Number 2, 2020
- pp. 143-167
- 10.1353/fro.2020.a765274
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Abstract:
This article centers incarcerated Indigenous women's voices, knowledges, and stories through an examination of A Gathering of Spirit (1983), edited by Beth Brant. Prioritizing these knowledges, which are often marginalized or absent in prison abolitionist literature, I illuminate the possibilities offered by decolonial approaches to prison abolition. This article explores the ways that Indigenous perspectives and stories are a vital part of the context for prison abolition in settler states and calls for non-Native prison abolitionists to attend to the experiences and stories of Indigenous incarcerated people as a central component of prison abolition as it is tied to decolonization.