The gendered violence that Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQIA people experience in Canada today is centuries in the making. It is a result of colonization, the processes by which Indigenous Peoples were dispossessed of their lands and resources, subjected to external control, and targeted for assimilation and, in some cases, extermination. This process has allowed for the creation Canada, and continues to disenfranchise, victimize and assimilate Indigenous peoples today. Colonialism is a foundational structure within Canadian government, law, policy, education, health, policing, Indigenous relations and more.
Reclaiming power and Place: The Final Report into the National Inquiry Into Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Volume 1a
Reclaiming power and Place: The Final Report into the National Inquiry Into Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Volume 1b
The Historic and Contemporary Permanence of the Doctrine of Discovery in Canada
Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoops and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship