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This paper examines the organizing strategies of the SNWM and their approach to issues of family, motherhood, contra­ception and child welfare interventions. Moving beyond the dichotomy of feminism and nationalism, Dr. Stevenson situates the movement within a larger Prairie indigenous struggle for jus­tice and indigenous ways of knowing that has its origins in the pre-1885 resistance.The paper explores the SNWM's in­volvement in resisting child welfare intervention and con­nects the SNWM to the nascent indigenous reproductive justice movement that was emerging around the globe.

Dr. Allyson Stevenson is a Metis mother of four from Kinistino SK. She recieved  her Ph.d in History in the spring of 2015. She is currently in a joint term position in Indigenous Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.