ABSTRACT
Despite the dramatic expansion of digital communications technologies, representing the traumatic life stories of specific populations-including the exorbitant level of violence against Native North American women-remains a small tributary in the mainstream news. To witness and digitally re-member through language the lives of Native women affected by violence is ceaseless, often painful labour for anti-violence workers, survivors, and their friends, relatives, and communities. Making space to re-embody Indigenous women within the multiplicity of Communities Against Violence Network - Indigenous Women (CAVNET-IW) digital archives and email posts can be simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting for the list community. The list members who responded to this message expressed gratitude for Deer's dedication to creating CAVNET_IW and for tirelessly posting information there that serves to witness and honour Indigenous women affected by violence, those who are survivors and those who are not. Most CAVNET_IW members understand the necessity of the changes as part of colonisation's ongoing legacy and of anti-violence activist resistance.
