Discusses the barriers Aboriginal women face in accessing HIV/AIDS-related services and examines research and projects that address the specific care, treatment and support needs of people living with HIV/AIDS.
Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.
Report provides overview of women's experiences in the systems, suggestions for policy changes, examination of access to and treatment in justice system, examination of women in the correctional system, and 96 recommendations to the Government of Canada for improvements.
Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women
E-Books
Author/Creator
Dawn M. Smith
Description
Chapter from Neo-Colonial Injustice and the Mass Imprisonment of Indigenous Women edited by Lily George, Adele N. Norris, Antje Deckert, Juan Tauri. Discusses the connection between colonialism and the large incarceration rates of Indigenous women in Canada.