A Recognition of Being: Exploring Native Female Identity
Theses
Author/Creator
Margaret Kimberly Anderson
Description
Education Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 1997.
Gives background to the issue, discusses the reports produced by the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, Human Rights Watch, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, and reports on the response of the federal and provincial governments.
Discusses how colonialism has created behavioral patterns and attitudes which serve to legitimize violence against Indigenous women and perpetuate racism and discrimination