"This book follows two historical arcs that are not obviously related but, in the hands of the author, become fascinating parallel studies. First, a long history of Indigenous North American Literature. While this is perhaps common enough, the author extends a Two Spirit Feminist method back to the 'first' Indigenous American novel, making fascinating claims about embodiment and violence in that novel and its relationship to the methods in question. Second, an attention to how Two Spirit Indigenous Feminism developed out of and in conversation with earlier (and continuing) conversations in Indigenous Studies. I especially valued the author's attention to multiple movements within Indigenous Studies, and their capacity to keep several schools of thought airborne simultaneously. Because the author is such a good and careful writer, they lay down definitions along the way that will help anyone at any level follow the argument AND learn a crucial history of thought in Indigenous Studies. Finally, the book makes a powerful argument for the importance of Two Spirit Indigenous Feminism to a wide range of texts and histories that might not obviously come to mind."

Bethany Schneider, Bryn Mawr College