ABSTRACT
People know who they are with respect to the dominant economic processes that characterize the world-economy. There is an implicit task set for any essay that addresses itself to the relationship between identity politics and feminism, and that is what is at stake for women in the worldwide struggles over national, racial, ethnic or religious identities. In the main by the end of the eighteenth and throughout the early period of the nineteenth century, the Native Americans were absolutely subject to commodity production for the world-market. The very character of the struggle over peoplehood and a viable ethnic identity requires them to embrace a set of social relations that are simultaneously mirrors of the gendered world inherited by Native Americans in their initial struggles for survival and, as well, weapons in that struggle. The example of Ireland of course has its own unique details but the analytical point can be made about regions all around the world.
