ABSTRACT
Comics artists have long used their medium to address social ills and raise awareness for important issues ignored by other media outlets. In a similar vein, Indigenous (Native American/First Nations) artists have used their work to draw attention to the persistence of settler colonialism and the subsequent violence against Native peoples. In his chapter “Graphic (Narrative) Presentations of Violence against Indigenous Women: Responses to the MMIW Crisis in North America,” James J. Donahue investigates the point where these two trends converge. With analyses grounded in comics studies as well as in Indigenous feminism, Donahue articulates how the work produced by various Indigenous comics artists employ the medium of comics/graphic novels to draw attention to and advocate for change on behalf of the growing number of Indigenous women and girls who suffer gender-based violence in a society that continues to embrace the logics of settler colonialism.
