Title: A Historico-Cultural Review of Native American Woman’s Double Spatial Marginalization in the Post-Contact Era
Abstract:The present study explores Native American woman’s spatiality in the postcontact
or post-colonization era and its implications on the Native American
woman of contemporary America. The paper offers a ...The present study explores Native American woman’s spatiality in the postcontact
or post-colonization era and its implications on the Native American
woman of contemporary America. The paper offers a historico-cultural critique
of Native American woman’s spatial marginalization as a result of the US
Government’s assimilation and acculturation policies. The present study employs
Tim Cresswell’s notion of normative geography to explore the socio-cultural
construction and reconfiguration of Native American normative geographic
structures in the post-contact era. This study claims that Euro-Americans used
religion, land treaties, education institutions, and legislative acts to destabilize
Native American woman’s positionality within Native American normative
geographies. The research concludes that the Euro-American expansionist
agenda that resulted in Native American woman’s double spatial marginalization
continues to mar Native American spatiality in contemporary United States.
Hence, to obtain socio-cultural emancipation, Native American woman needs to
contest her spatially marginalized position.Read More
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
Language: en
Type: review
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