Argues that the term femicide is inadequate since it refers to generic male violence against women, and crimes against Indigenous women are racialized gendered violence rooted in the effects of colonial power relations.
Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 2, Genocide Special Issue, December 30, 2018, pp. 1-30
Description
Article introduces the special edition on the genocide of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas; the author examines the way that international definitions of genocide actively work to exclude Native Americans and works to redefine the term from a Haudenosaunee perspective.