While awareness of the sexual and gendered colonial violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people has grown, the field of Indigenous law and beyond has yet to fully engage with Indigenous feminisms, gender, and sexuality in a sustained way. Ravens Talking challenges this gap, treating Indigenous feminisms as essential, insightful, and deeply transformative.

Through critical feminist analyses, this book examines key issues in Indigenous law, demonstrating how legal understandings shift when gender is consistently, meaningfully, and creatively engaged. The contributors to this collection confront the forms of power shaping these essential conversations and bring to the fore intergenerational Indigenous feminisms; Indigenous law and gender; the forms of expression and translation between and across legal and political worlds; and the rich array of disagreements and conflicts between Indigenous women. Ravens Talking intends to capture the complexities arising from Indigenous feminisms in living contexts to provoke questions and develop critical perspectives.

Both intellectually rigorous and practically grounded, Ravens Talking is a vital contribution encouraging dialogue on Indigenous legal traditions, justice, and sovereignty.

Ravens Talking offers a collaborative analysis of Indigenous feminist legal studies, particularly its emergence in the last ten years.

1.Indigenous Women Talking: The Work of Indigenous Feminisms in the World
Val Napoleon

2.Introduction: Indigenous Feminist Legal Studies 
Emily Snyder

3.Nêhiyaw Ceremony, Gendered Protocols, and Nêhiyaw Law
Darcy Lindberg

4.Understanding Indigenous Womxn’s Economic Sovereignty through Story
waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy

5.Giving Voice to Jigonsaseh: A Feminine Perspective on the Haudenosaunee Legal Order
Kahente Horn-Miller

6.What if Survivors Wrote the Laws? An Indigenous Feminist Audit of Tribal Sexual Assault in the United States
Sarah Deer

7.Deliberating Feminist Legal Strategies in R v Barton
Julie Kaye & Emily Snyder

8.Visualizing Violence Against Indigenous Women: Documentary Film as Disruption in Finding Dawn and American Outrage
Cheryl Suzack

9.Sovereign Refusals: Spending Time with Apak in the Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Rebecca Johnson

10.Thoughts and Questions and Questions   
Kim Pate & Val Napoleon