Abstract:

This qualitative research examines the relationship between the American indigenous women and nature in Silko’s Almanac of the Dead from Joni Adamson’s perspective of Environmental Justice and Indigenous Feminism through Catherine Belsey’s method of textual analysis. This novel spans 500 years of oppression and exploitation of nature and indigenous women. Since times immemorial, Native American women have had traditionally a close relationship with nature. European colonization displaced them from the natural environment of their homeland to subjugate them both. The colonial notion of domination and subordination was detrimental to nature as well as women. Besides suffering and poverty, women lost their identity with the loss of their contact with nature. This research paper projects the significance of nature in the life of American Indians and offers the imaginative restoration of their lost identity by critiquing the European maltreatment of nature and women.

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