Associating women’s and indigenous collective decision-making processes

Indigenous women have shown to be amongst the most vulnerable groups in the world yet demonstrate enormous experience in forming indigenous collective struggles and movements. To understand their position in negotiations with externals, we first embark on a journey through indigenous jurisdictions and cosmovisions tracing indigenous women’s roles and participatory rights ever since the colonial age. This is, in turn, contrasted by situating their rights violations into current contexts whenever collective rights are concern. We then explore how indigenous women’s rights find articulation in relation to self-determination, sovereignty, self-governance in power politics and other related absolute rights dimensions.