Citation

Johnson C. Invoke 2019; 5: e48980.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, University of Alberta)

DOI

10.29173/invoke48980

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Drawing on the current research, I argue that the extensive violence against Canada's Indigenous women and girls is enabled by public discourses that rely heavily on racist stereotypes. I use Razack's theoretical framework of "gendered disposibility" and "colonial terror" as a lense for critically viewing violence against Indigenous women and girls. To demonstrate the severity of violence, evidence from the Highway of Tears cases, incidents of police abuse, and the creation of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are all covered.

Language: en