"I first came across the book in my undergraduate studies while at Western University. I re-read the book after someone reminded how the book is a collection of essays, without any citations. When I first read the book, I didn't really pay attention to the fact there we no citations. After this person reminded me of this fact, I went back to read it and it was more powerful than when I first read it. Finally, in my final year of law school, I found a text where Lee Maracle discusses I Am Woman and talks about the importance of story in the context of western theories and limitations of western theories when it comes to our stories. Lee Maracle talks about her story as theory, not just an example within a theory. This is powerful, for me as an Indigenous woman, because, more often than not, Indigenous women's experiences are only used as examples within western theorizing. Their stories and experiences are dismissed and relegated to the periphery. I Am Woman, thus, centres Indigenous women's stories without the need to justify our authority by relying on western theories."