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Reclaiming Our Grandmothers in Monique Mojica’s Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots and Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: a Story of Sacajawea
From: Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada
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The second chapter of Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada examines the following works: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots by Monique Mojica, and Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: the Story of Sacajawea, also by Monique Mojica. The chapter first introduces Mojica, her work and her place in Canadian Indigenous drama. Then the author unpacks the Indian Princess myth in Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots, as well as considers how the work reframes Indigenous grandmothers in North, Central and South American Indigenous cultures. The chapter also looks at the portrayal of the role of Indigenous women during the Canadian fur trade era. Next, the author looks at Sacajawea’s story as told through Mojica’s play, which highlights Sacajawea’s abduction, the violence she experienced as a youth and the abuse of her adult life. The author makes the connection between the sexualized violence in Mojica’s plays to the sexualized violence that still occurs today to Indigenous women.
Contributors
Sarah Mackenzie
Sarah MacKenzie is an Anishinaabe/Métis/Scottish, feminist scholar and activist based in Ottawa. Her work focuses particularly upon redressing colonial violence by engaging with decolonial aesthetics.
