Native Women Archives - Ms. Magazine

Skating on Stolen Land

A roller skating fundraising campaign for Navajo health during the pandemic? At first I thought I had misunderstood my colleague Daisy Purdy’s comment over email. She had written that she might be hard to reach because she would be driving across country, to go to Arizona to begin a roller skating fund-raiser.

But of course, the Navajo Nation is among the hardest hit locations in the world, with the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rate. So awareness and pandemic relief is needed now—not at some later more convenient time.

Honoring the Diversity of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Wendy Chun-Hoon

The suffrage movement that organized, picketed, fasted, spoke out and endured arrests, beatings, force feedings and other forms of torment, would not have succeeded without the leadership and engagement of many women of color.

How Native American Women Inspired the Women’s Rights Movement, suffrage

How Native American Women Inspired the Women’s Rights, Suffrage Movement

Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner

Indigenous women of numerous Native Nations had rights, sovereignty and integrity long before European settlers arrived. This model of Native women’s rights gave suffragists the ammunition they needed, and the vision of something better.

“Laughter and contempt met my explanation of the white man’s hold upon his wife’s property.”

Star-Studded Indigenous Graduation Ceremony Honors 2020 Graduates

Gavi Klein

Navajo Nation-focused organization, Protect the Sacred, hosted a virtual graduation ceremony for the indigenous graduates of 2020— celebrating their accomplishments and encouraging them in the next chapter of their adult lives to participate in civic opportunities, such as completing the census and registering to vote.

On June Super Tuesday, Historic Wins for Women of Color Down the Ballot

Feminist Newswire

The success of diverse candidates suggests that widespread unrest has enhanced civic engagement and political participation.

#NavajoStrong: Celebs Line Up to Support Navajo Nation Hit by Pandemic

Ashley Lynn Priore

The Native American tribe has the highest per-capita infection rate after New York and New Jersey but has a fraction of the resources.

Earth Day, Ecofeminism and Racial Injustice in the Year of the Plague, COVID-19

Heidi Hutner

“This spring, while I social distance, I will plant seeds. After, when it is safe to go out, I will work to build a just world through community. Change comes through action. What will you do?”

Arts & Entertainment

Enjoy The Smithsonian’s New Exhibit Spotlighting Native Women Artists—From Your Home

Sheila Wickouski

Why are there not more recognized women artists in museums? Why are artworks by women—especially native artists who are women—classified as a separate and distinct form? That is, not as art but as craft? “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists” goes right to the core of that question.

Herstory

What Historical Photos of Native Women Tell Us About Sexism, Racism and Colonialism

Devorah Romanek

This month, I am thinking about historic photographs of Indigenous women, and how both the persistence and plight of contemporary Indigenous women is reflected backwards through time in photographs taken more than 100 years ago.

Making Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Visible

Carrie N. Baker

I encourage everyone to take a few moments, as the Thanksgiving season winds down, to think about Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, Hanna Harris and the thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in the U.S. and Canada.

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