ABSTRACT
Ultimately, decolonization is a relatively new line of inquiry, and there remain crucial questions to attend to given that Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies generally—and Native feminisms specifically—pose numerous challenges to Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) formulations of history, epistemology, and ontology. Most studies of colonialism have focused on cases across Asia and Africa, where European colonizers maintained ties to an imperial center, and eventually left, following struggles for national independence. Centering Native feminist critiques of settler colonialism provides an important grounding that avoids theoretical abstraction, pays attention to histories and lived experiences, and creates possibilities for relational analyses. In Canada in particular, the strategies have been motivated by the recommendations of the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which attempted to address the intergenerational impacts of Indian residential schools.
