Last Standing Woman activism Wanbli Mayasleca/Francis J

Wanbli Mayasleca/Francis J

Raven Halfmoon

From the use of homesteading by nineteenth-century Anishinaabe women to maintain their independence to the role that roads have played in expropriating Guam's Indigenous heritage to the links between land loss and genocide in California

far from helpless victims of colonial violence

protecting community resources

Last Standing Woman activism Wanbli Mayasleca/Francis JBorn at the turn of the 21st century, The Storyteller, also known as Ishkwegaabawiikwe (Last Standing Woman), carries her peoples past within her memories. The White Earth Anishinaabe people have lived on the same land for over a thousand years. Among the towering white pines and rolling hills, the people of each generation are born, live out their lives, and are buried. The arrival of European missionaries changes the community forever. Government