Confronting Canada’s Indigenous Female Disposability
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kara Jo Wilson
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 38, no. 1, 2018, pp. 153-163
Description
This article contains descriptions of extreme sexual and systemic violence.
Author describes the social and institutional discourses that render Aboriginal women disposable in the Canadian consciousness; addresses the stereotypical “Indian squaw” – “Indian princess” dichotomy, and examines RCMP approaches to investigating missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) cases.