Challenging Indigenous Marriage from Within: Memories of the Tiwi’s Martina and the figure of Malinche

• Main Author: Rademaker, Laura
• Other Authors: Boris, E, Dawson, S T, Molony, B
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2023
• Subjects: Martina; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/304848; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003050384-8; https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/304848/3/TMP39092136202311614444.pdf.jpg

This chapter readdresses and realigns Indigenous women’s transgressive challenges to marriage by displacing the activities of the colonizer and centering the activities of an individual Tiwi woman, who instigated marriage reform to benefit Tiwi women. The Catholic mission, on the Tiwi Islands off th...