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Indigenous Women's Legal Advocacy
Lindberg’s work with Indigenous women also looks at challenging traditional gender roles that colonization has constructed. In Gender, Power, and Representations of Cree Law, Emily Snyder analyses Lindberg’s work in regard to traditional gender roles. Her work suggests that engaging in gendered work and normative gendered roles suppresses Indigenous women and diminishes the authenticity of their culture.

Birdie (2015)
Birdie, published in 2015, was Lindberg’s debut novel and it has been said that this novel filled the gaps of what Canadian literature had been missing. Majority of Canadian literature has overlooked Indigenous women writers, and especially novels about the experiences of Indigenous women. Birdie represents the connections between Indigenous women and their experiences, and what occurs when they are broken. Not only does Lindberg’s novel focus on the experiences of Indigenous women, it also offers a universal story of healing and recovery. Birdie is enriched with elements of Cree storytelling, culture, and language, as the English language does not provide the novel with enough justice for Cree culture. Lindberg purposely disrupts the chronological order of time and challenges the linear order, as most of the story takes place from Bernice Meetoos’s bed in an almost dream state. Reviews have said that Birdie challenges Canada’s dark history of colonization and genocide of Indigenous peoples, in contrast to Canada being seen for its image of national kindness.