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Indigenous Girls and the Violence of Settler Colonial Policing

Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society I Jaskiran K. Dhillon

In cities and towns across Canada, Indigenous girls are being hunted, harassed, and criminalized by local law enforcement agents and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. These normalized outbreaks of state control are reflective of Indigenous girls’ daily realities embedded within the structure of an ongoing settler colonial social context that has strategically invented the criminal justice system to secure and maintain settler sovereignty.

Author / Publisher: Education & Society
Language(s): English
Year(s) Published: 2015
Accessibility Format(s): Machine-Readable Text
Type of Resource: Reports