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Reproductive Justice, Sovereignty, and Incarceration: Prison Abolition Politics and California Indians

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Lumsden, Stephanie·2016·American Indian Culture and Research Journal
DOI 10.17953/aicrj.40.1.lumsden
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In California the rapid expansion of the prison-industrial complex has led to the widespread use of incarceration as a solution to complex social problems. Incarceration undermines the sovereignty of California Indian tribes and limits the reproductive capacity of individual Native people by removing them from their lands, children, and ceremonies. This intrusion on Native peoples’ collective ability to determine a future for themselves is an infringement of their reproductive rights. In order to defend Native peoples’ reproductive capacity and the future of Native nations, prison abolition should be understood as essential to tribal sovereignty.

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  • Incarceration enables the criminalization of Indigenous bodies by providing a place where the state can send transgressors and deviants.

    “By providing a place where the state can send transgressors and deviants, incarceration enables the criminalization of Indigenous bodies.”

    From Decolonizing Research on the Carceral in Canadian Political Science (2023) · cites this paper as Lumsden, 2016

  • Some Indigenous scholars, including Lumsden, identify the need to counter carceral institutions through decarceration or abolition.

    “Some Indigenous scholars, including Lumsden, identify the need to counter carceral institutions through decarceration or abolition.”

    From Decolonizing Research on the Carceral in Canadian Political Science (2023) · cites this paper as Lumsden, 2016

  • Incarceration keeps Native people from reproducing Indian identity, culture, land, and children in a way that disproportionately affects Native women.

    “Finally, incarceration is a pernicious tool of colonization because, much like the early practices of genocide in California, it keeps Native people from reproducing Indian identity, culture, land, and children in a way that disproportionately affects Native women.”

    From Decolonizing Research on the Carceral in Canadian Political Science (2023) · cites this paper as Lumsden, 2016

  • By displacing Indigenous jurisprudence and imposing state punishment on Native people, incarceration legitimizes settler law.

    “By displacing Indigenous jurisprudence and imposing state punishment on Native people, incarceration legitimizes settler law.”

    From Decolonizing Research on the Carceral in Canadian Political Science (2023) · cites this paper as Lumsden, 2016

  • Incarceration continues to be effective against American Indians as a tool of colonization because it accomplishes many of the desires of the settler state.

    “In the words of Hupa gender studies scholar Stephanie Lumsden (2016: 33): Incarceration continues to be effective against American Indians as a tool of colonization because it accomplishes many of the desires of the settler state.”

    From Decolonizing Research on the Carceral in Canadian Political Science (2023) · cites this paper as Lumsden, 2016

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Authors
Lumsden, S.
Corresponding author
Lumsden, Stephanie
Venue
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
Publisher
California Digital Library (CDL)
Published
2016-01-01
Volume
40
Issue
1
Pages
33-46
ISSN
0161-6463 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.17953/aicrj.40.1.lumsden
OpenAlex
W2475258408
Cited by
19
References
40
Citations by year
2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 10 · 2020: 5
FWCI
0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc
Locations
  • American Indian Culture and Research Journal (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
Australian Government
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Law › Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
Keywords
prison abolition, reproductive justice, tribal sovereignty, California Indians, Native American tribes, incarceration, prison industrial complex, reproductive rights, Native nations

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