“The forest is my wife”: The Ethno-political and Gendered Relationship of Land and the Indigene

The imperative presence of land as a personified being in Indigenous Literatures asserts the crucial connection between and native ‘self’ defining ‘indigeneity’. While this is often reclaimed wrestle against geo-political confines nation-state; an indigenous woman, however, navigates ways non-identical. Women’s to land, opposed men, shapes ethno-political struggle proprietorship rather builds upon shared feminine traits fertility, nurture, service. Focusing on integration gender ecology important aspect ecological critique power progress, paper attempts delineate gendered relationship indigene land. It delves into two areas study: firstly, probing distinct unifies itself with secondly, critiquing dynamics involved merger. study focuses emancipatory impediments women by analysing select works Easterine Kire Mamang Dai, also, tangentially referring few other women’s writings from North East India.