Books: Indigenous & Amazons Rising

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Indigenous Rising: A Decolonial Map to Reclaim Your Indigenous Body, Land, and Memory: A transformative Research and Complementary essays

Indigenous Rising is a journey of return to body, land, and ancestors. Blending Indigenous knowledge, North African cosmology, decolonial feminism, and Indigenous methodologies, Ouassima Touahria offers a powerful map for reclaiming what coloniality tried to fracture: identity, belonging, and ancestral sovereignty.

Grounded in academic research yet written for all readers, Indigenous Rising speaks to anyone seeking to understand how colonial epistemologies continue to shape contemporary realities — and how Indigenous, decolonial, and creative methodologies offer alternative ways of thinking about knowledge, belonging, and identity. It provides solid tools for recovering Indigenous and alternative epistemologies, embodied experience, and ancestral memory.

By situating her own experiences within North African Amazigh landscapes, traditions, and culture, Ouassima traces how North African Indigenous spiritual and land‑based traditions survived centuries of conquest, erasure, and silence, and demonstrates how stories carried by bodies and lands can be remembered, healed, and restored.

Ultimately, Indigenous Rising invites readers to consider decolonization not as abstract theory or political act, but as a lived practice: a return to land, to story, to body, and to the ancestral knowledge that has sustained North African Indigenous peoples across millennia. A guide for those seeking to reclaim their indigeneity, this work speaks to scholars, activists, researchers, artists, and anyone longing to rebuild their relationship with their land, their ancestors, and themselves.

Amazons Rising: North Africa’s Warrior Women: Daughters of Water, Queens of Old, Awaken.

Amazons Rising is a journey into North Africa’s ancestral cosmology, revealing the forgotten lineage of the Amazigh Amazons, the memory of the Great Mother, and the map of the Garden of Hesperides.

Blending Indigenous, decolonial, and creative methodologies — including genealogy, Archaeomythology, material culture, autoethnography, goddess studies, and lived pilgrimage — the book offers restored Indigenous North African knowledge, reconnects with land and spirit, and envisions new futures.

For centuries, the history of North Africa has been written without its people. The Amazigh queens, priestesses, healers, and warriors were erased from the archives, cast as monsters, or reduced to docile daughters and angry wives in Greek mythology. Their symbols were appropriated, and their ceremonies were absorbed into folklore. In this book, the author presents a coherent North African cosmology and delves deeper to explain the origins of the Amazons and their belief system.

This book challenges what you know about Aphrodite, Medusa, Circe, and Medea, whose origins were displaced or rewritten. It presents the Garden of the Hesperides — long displaced to Spain, Crete, or myth — as a constellation of North African sacred sites, guarded by ancient queens, and traces their lineage. It demonstrates how recent queens and leaders, such as Tin Hinan, Kahena, Fatma N'Soumer, and Lalla N’Soumer, embody this long lineage of warrior women and priestesses, and summons modern Amazons to awaken and reclaim their place in the world to defend the sacred, now and in the future.

This book is written for those who feel the call of the Ancient Queens of Old and their descendants, the Amazons. It is an act of memory restoration, a re-centering of indigenous women’s knowledge, a re-mapping of sacred landscape and geography, and, finally, a reawakening of the Amazon lineage.

Ouassima Touahria is a researcher and writer whose work bridges decolonialism and Indigenous studies, as well as creative and feminist methodologies. Born in North Africa and shaped by the landscapes of mountains, waters, and winds, she carries a deep connection to her ancestors, land, and memory.

Her academic work explores how colonialism and patriarchy fractured Indigenous epistemologies, and how land‑based practices, ceremony, myth, and embodied writing can restore what was silenced and heal what was broken. Through methodologies such as autoethnography, archeomythology, DNA research, and creative inquiry, she weaves scholarship with spiritual and ancestral remembrance to offer alternative epistemologies. Her writing is both an act of rebellion and a reclamation, a way to return to the body and lands as sites of memory and sovereignty. She writes the wounds and dreams of women who came before her, honoring the teachings of the warrior queens who shaped North African history, and pursuing their mission with the rising Amazons to protect bodies, lands, and sacred waters.