The Sterilization of Native American Women in Oklahoma

Hadley, Brooke

The Sterilization of Native American Women in Oklahoma

dc.contributor.advisor	Holland, Jennifer
dc.contributor.author	Hadley, Brooke
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Velázquez, Mirelsie
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Hyde, Anne
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-21T15:39:23Z
dc.date.available	2021-05-21T15:39:23Z
dc.date.issued	2021-05-14
dc.date.manuscript	2021-05-14
dc.description.abstract	In 1974, the Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma sterilized forty-eight Native American women in the month of July alone. Most of these women were in their twenties. This is a staggering number compared to the amount of Native American women serviced in the surrounding community. At the time, it was also reported that Native American patients were being actively “turned away by the hospital on the grounds that there were not sufficient funds to care for them.” This local event foregrounds the scholarly work done throughout this thesis. The main argument of this paper is that Native nurses were the real leaders of the activist movement against sterilization abuses. This thesis concludes by examining the solidarity between different women’s activist groups of the 1970s. These women activists understood themselves as united through experiences of violence and their fight as a shared effort to overthrow imperialism and colonialism.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/329643
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Native American Studies.	en_US
dc.subject	History, United States.	en_US
dc.subject	Women's Studies.	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Master of Arts	en_US
dc.title	The Sterilization of Native American Women in Oklahoma	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of History	en_US