Contrasts British male colonial attitudes to women in general and Indigenous women in particular to their status in traditional Indigenous societies; traces the development of stereotypes about both men and women; looks at the impacts of government-church alliances, the role of contemporary media and incidence and types of violence perpetrated against Indigenous women; and argues that restoring safety will mean recognizing and attempting to correct harms done by non-Indigenous societies, and decolonization of communities so that they may heal from historic trauma.
Arkansas Law Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 1986, pp. 327-379
Description
Compares and contrasts the social and mores existing in American Indian societies of the nineteenth century with those of the Anglo-Europeans. The article also discusses the effects of assimilation and post-assimilation policies on those social structures.