Native American feminism or Native feminism is, at its root, understanding how gender plays an important role in indigenous communities both historically and in modern-day. As well, Native American feminism deconstructs the racial and broader stereotypes of indigenous peoples, gender, sexuality, while also focusing on decolonization and breaking down the patriarchy and pro-capitalist ideology.[1] As a branch of the broader Indigenous feminism, it similarly prioritizes decolonization, indigenoussovereignty, and the empowerment of indigenous women and girls in the context of Native American and First Nations cultural values and priorities, rather than white, mainstream ones.[2] A central and urgent issue for Native feminists is the Missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis.[3]
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