The article analyses Patricia Grace's novel Baby No-Eyes (1998) in light of debates about the Human Genome Diversity Project and its research on indigenous communities. Focusing on the story of a miscarried Māori baby whose eyes are removed for ...

Through the exploration of Abenaki author Joseph Bruchac's Hidden Roots (2004), a young adult historical novel, the article examines the intersection of racial and disability ideologies in the eugenics movement in 1930s America. It discusses the text ...

The article witnesses encounters in Australia, many centered in Aboriginal Australian contexts, and asks what arts-based research methods can offer to intercultural contact. It offers a meditation on decolonizing methodologies and the use of literary ...

The article analyzes the only known book-length narrative of a Native American tuberculosis survivor, Madonna Swan. Swan's disability memoir can be read as the lived embodiment of the decolonization movement within the Lakota Nation and across the ...

The article traces representations of illness and disability in the writing of Mohegan medicine people from the eighteenth century to the present—from the missionary Samson Occom's herbal, which recorded indigenous remedies for imported diseases, to ...