Manual designed to help Indigenous women and service providers address key aspects of violence, as well as understand Indigenous women’s legal rights on matters related to leaving a violent relationship.
Mundi: Global Studies Society Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Global Connections, 2020, pp. 1-33
Description
Using a comparative case study to examine the unequal mainstream media coverage of murdered Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in Mexico. The findings show that non-Indigenous cases are given more and longer media coverage that provides those cases a "higher profile" for law enforcement.
Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics, vol. 17, no. 4, Lighthouse Point, 2020, pp. 51-71
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Reflects on a five year project to connect Indigenous females with white policemen through participation in a drum circle. The drum circle allowed dialogue between the two groups in hopes of creating understanding, healing and trust.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 1, Winter, 2020, pp. [36]-58
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An examination of the short story written in 1925 and how the author uses the medium to shine light on sexual violence perpetrated against Cherokee women and to advocate sovereignty by challenging the U.S. allotment process.
Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy
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Author/Creator
Genevieve Fuji Johnson
pp. [25]-46
Description
An analysis of Indigenous women's activists role into the creation of an inquiry into the well beings of Indigenous women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and in exposes the flaws in the inquiry and the impact to changes they achieved. A chapter from Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy edited by Leah R. E. Levac and Sarah Marie Wiebe. To access chapter scroll down to page 25.
Presents results of six weeks of fact-finding conducted from January to July 2016, interviews and correspondence with police, and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.