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"Justice, Indigenous Womxn, and Two-Spirit People is an edited volume that offers a broad overview of topics pertaining to gender-related health, violence, and healing. Employing strength-based approach (as opposed to a deficit model), the chapters address the resiliency of Indigenous women and two-spirit people in the face of colonial violence and structural racism. The book centers the concept of "rematriation"-the concerted effort to place power, peace and decision making back into the female space, land, body and sovereignty-as a decolonial practice to combat injustice. Chapters include such topics as reproductive health, diabetes, missing and murdered Indigenous women, Indigenous women in the academy, and Indigenous women and food sovereignty. As part of the Indigenous Justice series, this book aims to provide an introductory overview of the topic geared toward undergraduate and graduate classes"--

Powerful parallels: deep ecology and the writings of Vine Deloria Jr. -- Environmental injustice, land, and American Indian religious freedom -- Environmental injustices and state-corporate crime on Navajo and Hopi lands -- Environmental racism: contaminated water in indigenous and minority communities -- Two cases of navigating legal complexity: environmental justice in Barrow and Tar Creek -- The water-energy nexus and environmental justice: the missing link between water rights and energy production on tribal lands -- Not in our lands: a Canadian comparative case study of indigenous resistance strategies to natural resource development in British Columbia and the Arctic -- Urban Native American women as environmental justice leaders.

Introduction / Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider -- Introduction to Part I (Traditional law) / Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider -- Revisioning Traditional Indigenous Justice in the Light of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / James W. Zion and Robert Yazzie -- Traditional American Indian Justice / Raymond D. Austin -- Introduction to Part II (National law) / Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen -- Restoring Congruity : Indigenous Lives and Religious Freedom in the U.S. and Canada / Chris Jocks -- Respect for the ICWA and Its Reflection on Tribal Sovereignty / Kurt Seidschlaw -- Protecting Native American Women : Grassroots Efforts to Address domestic Violence and VAWA 2013 / Mary Jo Tippeconic Fox -- Introduction to Part III (International law) / Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider -- International and Comparative Perspectives on the Recognition and Promotion of Indigenous Justice / Leonardo J. Alvarado -- How Indigenous Justice Programs Contribute to Indigenous Community Capacity-Building and Achieving Human Rights / Marianne O. Nielsen -- Conclusion / Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen.