Carrying Stories of Incarcerated Indigenous Women as Tools for Prison Abolition

This article centers incarcerated Indigenous women's voices, knowledges, and stories through an examination of A Gathering of Spirit (1983), edited by Beth Brant. Prioritizing these knowledges, which are often marginalized or absent in prison abolitionist literature, I illuminate the possibilities offered by decolonial approaches to prison abolition. This article explores the ways that Indigenous perspectives and stories are a vital part of the context for prison abolition in settler states and calls for non-Native prison abolitionists to attend to the experiences and stories of Indigenous incarcerated people as a central component of prison abolition as it is tied to decolonization.