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The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

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    In the essay collection The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986), she argues that feminist and Native American perspectives on life are compatible, claiming that traditional tribal lifestyles were never patriarchal and were generally based on “spirit-centered, woman-focused worldviews.” The book contains one of her…

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