For centuries, Indigenous women have displayed strong and steadfast resilience to Eurocentric and patriarchal violence.  This resilience has been manifested when Indigenous mothers faced having their children’s culture, and sometimes their lives, removed through the Federal government’s Indian Board School policies, and the targeted violence imposed on women in Indigenous communities through the epidemic that has been called “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.”  Fortunately, these injustices are receiving increasing attention, thanks largely to the efforts of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Pueblo of Laguna), the first Indigenous Cabinet Secretary. 

The second edition offers updated research on language revitalization, adolescents and their parental caregivers, Indigenous issues in higher education, and new work on matrilineality, the Missing and Murdered People crisis, and the continuation of healing traditions in a contemporary context.