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"Monique Verdin's Louisiana Love: An Interview" provides insights into the aesthetic choices and activism of Houma photographer and documentarian Monique Michelle Verdin. The interview begins with a discussion of Houma kinship relations with both land and water, considering the ecological devastation that corporate colonialism and climate change have wreaked on south Louisiana. This line of questioning leads to a discussion of her 2012 documentary, My Louisiana Love, of which she is both a producer and the central figure. She explains that she was trying to tell the story of her tribe, which inevitably led to documentation of how the gas and oil industry has ravaged south Louisiana's wetlands through both pollution and pipeline construction. We also discuss how the personal losses in the film, resulting from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005) and BP's 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, make her own pain a focus that ultimately demonstrates intergenerational trauma. The interview then moves on to the ways in which her artistic work led to her activism, particularly by recording the damage sustained by the Gulf of Mexico and the coast due to the BP oil spill. The conversation describes how she has since created alliances with diverse Native peoples as the Gulf Coast representative for the Indigenous Environmental Network and through national and international activism, including at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP 21). The interview concludes with Verdin's thoughts on environmental issues concerning south Louisiana today, including the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline and the impending resettlement of the Isle de Jean Charles tribe of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw due to rising sea levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented on the history of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (SDCADVSA), with a particular focus on Native women's roles in the organization. According to the author, Native women's activism at local, national, and international levels is the foundation upon which federal legislation like the U.S. Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) of 2010 can be built. The relationship between colonialism and heteropatriarchy is also discussed.

This article presents an operational history of Alberta's Native Homemakers' Clubs to clarify the significant contributions of Canada's smaller, localized Native associations throughout the twentieth century. An exploration of the establishment, participation, and activities of, and outside support for these clubs reveals the historical context of the Native Homemakers' Clubs to First Nation communities, and demonstrates that the clubs were a vehicle for education, activism, and agency for Native women in Alberta. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the political activism of Cherokee women in opposition to Indian removal policies in the United States in the early 19th century, arguing that their campaigns predated and influenced the better-known activities of white women led by Catharine Beecher and Lydia Sigourney. Topics discussed include the mobilization of the Beloved Women of the Cherokee Nation in 1817 in response to the removal crisis of 1817-1819, the role of women and mothers in Cherokee society, the actions of Cherokee activist Margaret Ann Scott (Vann Crutchfield), and the role of Christian missionaries.