Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century

Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth CenturyThis pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly. As Brianna Theobald illustrates, the federal government and local authorities have long sought to control

Lucy and the Martin children will need to find the necklace quickly—or they may not have a home at all

It is about how the stories we tell ourselves can help reshape the ways in which we think

and Kansas City

When she becomes pregnant

Grover draws on a wealth of stories and knowledge accumulated over the years to evoke the Ojibwe experience of Onigamiising

In the 1920s

and in these poems

Justice argues that Indigenous writers engage with these questions in part to challenge settler-colonial policies and practices that have targeted Indigenous connections to land

ceremony and sexuality

to run unsuccessfully for Congress

uses these pieces of her mother's life to try and understand her mother's relationship to home

A beautifully presented illustrated children's book about when Rabbit and Otter meet a new friend while they are doing spring cleaning