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.

• Warrior Princesses Strike Back is a hybrid activist memoir, specifically targeted for women of color who are survivors of assault, abuse, and trauma. Both authors have been lifelong advocates of Indigenous spirituality and storytelling as a means to understanding and healing the impact of trauma on marginalized communities.
• The book's primary audience also includes those interested in healing and social justice, academics in WGS or postcolonial studies, and readers interested in understanding contemporary Native American perspectives and experiences to become better allies of Indigenous movements.
• There is very little representation of Indigenous women's voices in spaces dedicated to self-help, healing, and spirituality. Despite the long tradition of appropriating "Native American" aesthetics or ideas, writers from these communities have rarely been active participants in shaping that conversation.