FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canadian Indian Residential School System, White Supremacy, Audre Lorde

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Shoshana Magnet

Document Summary

Fem colonization & representation indigenous feminisms. * extra credit: describe an instance of your racing to innocence . Indigenous feminisms: aboriginal men, women, children in canada continue to confront the history of colonialism and ongoing racism that characterize the canadian state the 1876 indian act of canada is part of what mi"kmaq scholar bonita. Lawrence calls the national genocidal policies designed to abolish native culture. Consequences of colonialism: alientation for aboriginal people from their cultures and communities, erosion of traditional rights as the federal govt redefined their lands, beliefs, and people in order to undermine the dignity and integrity of. Canada), they generally become targeted as foreign threats, particularly during war time: ex: japanese canadian incarceration, profiling arabs/muslims post 9/11. She wrote broadly about topics including aboriginal law and justice, racism and police brutality towards aboriginal peoples, aboriginal self-governance, and feminist legal theory.