Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt, Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, Christi Belcourt

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781772123678
• eBook ISBN: 9781772123913
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Studi di genere

In Keetsahnak / Our Murdered and Missing Indigenous Sisters, the tension between personal, political, and public action is brought home starkly as the contributors look at the roots of violence and how it diminishes life for all. Together, they create a model for anti-violence work from an Indigenous perspective. They acknowledge the destruction wrought by colonial violence, and also look at controversial topics such as lateral violence, challenges in working with "tradition," and problematic notions involved in "helping." Through stories of resilience, resistance, and activism, the editors give voice to powerful personal testimony and allow for the creation of knowledge. It's in all of our best interests to take on gender violence as a core resurgence project, a core decolonization project, a core of Indigenous nation building, and as the backbone of any Indigenous mobilization. —Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Contributors: Kim Anderson, Stella August, Tracy Bear, Christi Belcourt, Robyn Bourgeois, Rita Bouvier, Maria Campbell, Maya Ode'amik Chacaby, Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group, Susan Gingell, Michelle Good, Laura Harjo, Sarah Hunt, Robert Alexander Innes, Beverly Jacobs, Tanya Kappo, Tara Kappo, Lyla Kinoshameg, Helen Knott, Sandra Lamouche, Jo-Anne Lawless, Debra Leo, Kelsey T. Leonard, Ann-Marie Livingston, Brenda Macdougall, Sylvia Maracle, Jenell Navarro, Darlene R. Okemaysim-Sicotte, Pahan Pte San Win, Ramona Reece, Kimberly Robertson, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Beatrice Starr, Madeleine Kétéskwew Dion Stout, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, Alex Wilson

Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

• Aboriginal Justice Implementation Committee, 247
• abuse and violence. See domestic violence; sexual violence; violence
• Acoose, Janice, 195, 248
• activism. See decolonization; resistance and activism; resurgence of Indigenous peoples
• adoption. See child welfare systems
• AI. See Amnesty International Canada
• Akwesasne community, 289–91
• Alberni Indian Residential School, 50–51
• Alberta, child welfare system, 86n43
• alcohol use
• over-criminalization of women, 79, 149–50
• personal stories, 8–9, 13
• Algonquian people, New York area, 103–9
• See also Shinnecock
• Amnesty International Canada
• IE networking, 250, 259–60
• Stolen Sisters report, 17–18, 22–25, 248, 283
• Anaya, James, 17
• Anderson, Kim
• contributor, 327
• on Indigenous men as perpetrators of violence, xxvii, 175–92
• introduction by, xxi–xxx
• Life Stages and Native Women, 295
• reflections on Keetsahnak, xxix, 305–6
• Anderson, Mark Cronlund, 97
• Ani...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Prologue
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I | All Our Relations
• II The Violence of History
• III Challenges
• IV Action, Always
• Epilogue
• Contributors
• Index