Warrior Princesses Strike Back

How Lakota Twins Fight Oppression and Heal Through Connectedness

By: Sarah Eagle Heart, Emma Eagle Heart-White

Narrated by: Sarah Eagle Heart, Emma Eagle Heart-White

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.

©2023 Sarah Eagle Heart,Emma Eagle Heart-White (P)2023 Spotify Audiobooks

This is an amazing book

I’m very happy this book was recommended to me. I learned so much from these two amazing women.

a must read for Natives and allies alike

I loved this book because so many of the lived experiences resonates with my own. I hope allies can listen to this and learn from it