From “Indian Princesses” to Matriarchs: A History of Indigenous Feminism Through Coast Salish Beauty Pageants
Partner
Dr. Alessandro Tarsia (2025-Present)
Deliverables
Database
Project description
This project aims to explore how settler colonial society has shaped Indigenous femininity, and, crucially, how and to what extent Stó:lō people utilized Western pageant forms—including talent shows and notions of femininity and feminism—as tools for cultural resurgence and the assertion of Indigenous gender, cultural, and political identity.
Student involvement
PARC students supported this project with the development of a database.