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    Forever loved : exposing the hidden crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada / edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jennifer Brant.

    • Title:Forever loved : exposing the hidden crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada / edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jennifer Brant.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Lavell-Harvard, D. Memee (Dawn Memee), 1974- author, editor.
      Brant, Jennifer, 1981- author, editor.
      Xwi7xwa Collection
    • Published/Created:Bradford, ON : Demeter Press, [2016]
      ©2016
    • Holdings

       
    • FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Women.
      Indigenous Peoples--Discrimination.
    • Library of Congress Subjects: Indigenous women--Violence against--Canada.
      Women--Violence against--Canada.
      Girls--Violence against--Canada.
      Missing persons--Canada.
      Murder victims--Canada.
      Indigenous women--Violence against--Canada.
      Indigenous women--Crimes against--Canada.
    • Description:xiv, 308 pages ; 23 cm
    • Summary:"The hidden crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada is both a national tragedy and a national shame. In this ground-breaking new volume, as part of their larger efforts to draw attention to the shockingly high rates of violence against our sisters, Jennifer Brant and D. Memee Lavell-Harvard have pulled together a variety of voices from the academic realms to the grassroots and front-lines to speak on what has been identified by both the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations as a grave violation of the basic human rights of Aboriginal women and girls. Linking colonial practices with genocide, through their exploration of the current statistics, root causes and structural components of the issue, including conversations on policing, media and education, the contributing authors illustrate the resilience, strength, courage, and spirit of Indigenous women and girls as they struggle to survive in a society shaped by racism and sexism, patriarchy and misogyny. This book was created to honour our missing sisters, their families, their lives and their stories, with the hope that it will offer lessons to non-Indigenous allies and supporters so that we can all work together towards a nation that supports and promotes the safety and well-being of all First Nation, Métis and Inuit women and girls."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9781772580204 (paperback)
      1772580201 (paperback)
    • Contents:Introduction: forever loved / D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jennifer Brant
      I. Violence against indigenous women and girls: a sociological phenomenon
      Stolen sisters: the politics, policies, and travesty of missing and murdered women in Canada / Wendee Kubik and Carrie Bourassa
      Understanding violence against indigenous women and girls in Canada / Jessica Riel-Johns
      "Only the silence remains": Aboriginal women as victims in the case of the Lower Eastside (Picton) murders, investigative flaws, and the aftermath of violence in Vancouver / Patricia O'Reilly and Thomas Fleming
      Sisters in spirit / Anita Olsen Harper
      II. The ongoing erasure of indigenous women
      The unmournable body of Cindy Gladue: on corporeal integrity and grievability / Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez
      Analyzing erasures and resistance involving indigenous women in New Brunswick, Canada / Josephine L. Savarese
      The duty of the Canadian media in relation to the violence against Native women: lessons drawn from the case of Ciudad Juárez / Isela Pérez-Torres
      III. Education, awareness, and action
      Transnational advocacy for the missing and murdered indigenous women / Rosemary Nagy
      How the lens of the global locates Canada's missing and murdered indigenous women: pedagogical methods, lessons, and hope from the classroom / Brenda Anderson
      Honouring "our sisters in spirit": an interview with film director Nick Printup / Jennifer Brant and Nick Printup
      IV. Taking a stance: resistance and sisterhood
      Sisterhood on the frontlines: the truth as we hear it from indigenous women / Summer Rain Bentham, Hilla Kerner, and Lisa Steacy, Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
      Visualizing grassroots justice: missing and murdered indigenous women / Vicki Chartrand, Myrna Abraham, Leah Maureen Gazan, Cheryl James, Brenda Osborne, and Chickadee Richard
      Personal political pedagogy with respect to #MMIW / Maxine Matilpi
      V. Voices of healing: narrative and poetry
      Little sister / Tasha Spillet
      She, remembers, warrior / Tasha Spillet
      What I learned from walking with our sisters / Gillian McKee
      To my sister I have never met / Sherry Emmerson
      If one more / Sǎkihitowin Awǎsis
      Take back the night / Sǎkihitowin Awǎsis
      Accomplice / Alyssa M. General
      Moving forward: a dialogue between D. Memee Lavell-Harvard, Gladys Radek, and Bernice Williams
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