The issue wasn't nuclear testing, like we thought it was. The issue was and still is colonisation. Isolated from a world which seems not to care, the women of Belau and the Marshall Islands are biding their time, focusing on the day to day survival of their families. But the time will come when they resist US colonisation once again. If we are to find a meeting place between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women then we must engage with our own racism, and the racism of our nations.
True feminism strives for a world where all peoples are free.
It requires us to take up the issues facing Indigenous women. It means sharing the resources that we can gain by means of being Europeans in this world - tools, money, media. It particularly means incorporating Indigenous women's visions and needs into our own. Committing ourselves to change means changing ourselves. We've got to accept the responsibility that comes when we realise that the European world was built, and is maintained, on the backs of Indigenous and other peoples of the exploited world.