Winyan Okodakiciye: Indigenous Resurgence & Women Society Lifeways

Abstract

Winyan okodakiciye and Indigenous women led collectives and organizations play a vital role in our communities and movements. This dissertation examines the ways winyan okodakiciye work to address the community impacts of settler colonialism, colonial patriarchy, violence and historical oppression by nourishing resilience and providing community-care through Indigenous resurgence. The community care provided by winyan okodakiciye rooted in a deep relationality linking resilience to the powerful knowledge systems cradled within ceremony, language, cultural systems & structures. Following the works of Indigenous scholars of Glen Coulthard and Leanne Betasamosake, this can be recognized as a place-based lifeway standing upon a historical grounding of Indigenous systems and reveals living, breathing precolonial formation contemporarily driven by concepts and acts of rematriation, resistance, and resurgence.