Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions of self-help and
collective recovery, Warrior Princesses Strike Back focuses how
Indigenous activist strategies can be a crucial roadmap for contemporary
truth and healing.
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the original people of this
land, yet it is also one of the poorest communities in America. Through
intimate and vulnerable memoir, Lakota twin sisters Sarah Eagle Heart
and Emma Eagle Heart-White recount growing up on the reservation and
overcoming enormous odds, first as teenage girls in a majority-white
high school, and then battling bias in their professional careers. Woven
throughout are self-help strategies centering women of color, that
combine marginalized histories, psychological research on trauma, and
perspectives on decolonial therapy. Through the lens of Indigenous
activism, the Eagle Hearts explore the possibility of healing
intergenerational and personal trauma by focusing on traditional
strategies of reciprocity, acknowledgment, and collectivism.