Incarceration of Native American Women

Creating Pathways to Wellness and Recovery Through Gentle Action Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Named an In The Margin's 2024 Social Justice Advocacy TitleIn The Incarceration of Native American Women, Carma Corcoran examines the rising number of Native American women being incarcerated in Indian Country. With years of experience as a case management officer, law professor, consultant to tribal defenders’ offices, and workshop leader in prisons, she believes this upward trajectory of incarceration continues largely unacknowledged and untended. She explores how a combination of F. David Peat’s gentle action theory and the Native traditional ways of knowing and being could heal Native American women who are or have been incarcerated.Colonization and the historical trauma of Native American incarceration runs through history, spanning multiple generations and including colonial wartime imprisonment, captivity, Indian removal, and boarding schools. The ongoing ills of childhood abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and drug and alcohol addiction and the rising number of suicides are indicators that Native people need healing. Based on her research and work with Native women in prisons, Corcoran provides a theory of wellness and recovery that creates a pathway for meaningful change. The Incarceration of Native American Women offers students, academics, social workers, counselors, and those in the criminal justice system a new method of approach and application while providing a deeper understanding of the cultural and historical experiences of Native Americans in relation to criminology.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-06-01
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt478 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Antal sidor200
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN9781496224187

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Carma Corcoran (Chippewa Cree) is the director of the Indian Law Program at Lewis and Clark Law School. She is also an adjunct professor of Indigenous Nations studies at Portland State University and an adjunct professor of Native American studies at Salish Kootenai College. Corcoran serves on several boards of directors for organizations dealing with issues that Native American people are facing.

List of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Native American Women and Incarceration2. Law and Policy in Native American History3. Incarceration from a Philosophical and Historical Perspective4. Historical Trauma and the Need for Healing and Perspectives of Native Spirituality5. Gentle Action Theory6. Cree Traditional Justice7. Narratives of Incarceration and Healing8. Discoveries, Conclusion, and Future ResearchReferencesIndex

"I recommend this book as a tool to understand the historical and contemporary issues that impact and lead to the incarceration of Native women as well as the lasting impacts on our relatives and tribal nations."-Emily R. White Hat, Tribal College Journal "The strength of this work is the author's incorporation of a respected theoretical position, arising from the dominant society, in the successful treatment of Indigenous prisoners."-F. E. Knowles, Choice “This notion of respectful integration of a ‘mainstream’ approach and an Indigenous approach is cutting edge in its possibilities. This book is exceptionally strong and innovative.”-Frank Pommersheim, author of Tribal Justice: Twenty-Five Years as a Tribal Appellate Justice “This first book about incarcerated Indigenous women in more than two decades insists on the importance of tribal knowledge and practices-and illuminates their importance in the areas of justice and healing. It also brings gentle action theory into dialogue with these issues in a manner that is instructive.”-C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand