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Sexualized Genocide

Sexualized Genocide

From: Warrior Life

Section three, Sexualized Genocide, contains Palmater’s articles and blog posts in response to headlines about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, including how resource … 54 $5.40 Add
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Smallpox
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Smallpox

From: Country of Poxes

Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, … 66 $6.60 Add
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Survival of the Fattest Disabled 2S in the North
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Survival of the Fattest Disabled 2S in the North

From: Living Disability

Valdine Alycia writes about their experience living in Northern Manitoba on Treaty 5 land as a fat, Two-Spirit person with roots in the Red River Métis Settlement. They relate these experiences … 7 $0.70 Add
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Syphilis
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Syphilis

From: Country of Poxes

Chapter 2 focuses on syphilis. Topics discussed include the debate around syphilis’ origins, the politics of colonialism,  the “Columbian exchange”, the stages of syphilis, … 56 $5.60 Add
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Systems and Institutions
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Systems and Institutions

From: Killing the Wittigo

In this chapter, Methot describes indigenization and decolozination. She examines how colonial systems and institutions continue to uphold oppressive values and practices. 26 $2.60 Add
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Terror, Anger, Grief, Loss
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Terror, Anger, Grief, Loss

From: Killing the Wittigo

In the first chapter, Methot categorizes the traumatic implications of oppressive colonial tactics into historic trauma, impacts on 1st generation, intergenerational impacts, and continued … 26 $2.60 Add
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the seven sacred ways of healing

the seven sacred ways of healing

From: The Care We Dream Of

The author begins the chapter with poetry and continues with their experience returning to their estranged relatives and indigenous community in a women-led healing ceremony. 5 $0.50 Add
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The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls’ Narratives on Police Violence
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The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls’ Narratives on Police Violence

From: White Benevolence

In chapter 8, Megan Scribe critically examines Indigenous women and girls’ stories about police violence in prose and poetry to shed greater light on storytelling as a tool for justice and … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Whiteness of Medicine
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The Whiteness of Medicine

From: White Benevolence

In chapter 13, Jaris Swidrovich examines how the whiteness of medicine has direct and detrimental impacts on access to care by Indigenous Peoples. Deeply rooted racism, whiteness and both … 11 $1.10 Add
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Toxic Encounters: What’s Whiteness Doing in a Nice Field Like Education?
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Toxic Encounters: What’s Whiteness Doing in a Nice Field Like Education?

From: White Benevolence

In chapter 3, Sheelah McLean examines the effects of white settler colonialism on public education, looking mainly at how white supremacy is maintained through the repetition of everyday … 14 $1.40 Add
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Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood
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Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood

From: White Benevolence

In chapter 6, Willow Samara Allen considers the integral role white women have played in the ongoing settler-colonial project through the performance of benevolent white femininity, which … 18 $1.80 Add
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Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis

From: Country of Poxes

Chapter 4 focuses on tuberculosis. Discussing topics including the present persistence of tuberculosis into the twenty first century across the globe including in Canada, the long history of … 61 $6.10 Add
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Unmasking the Whiteness of Nursing
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Unmasking the Whiteness of Nursing

From: White Benevolence

In chapter 12, Sharissa Hantke uses the lens of antiracism to examine how whiteness operates in the field of nursing. 12 $1.20 Add
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What Can “Settler of Colour” Teach Us?: A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities
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What Can “Settler of Colour” Teach Us?: A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White Universities

From: White Benevolence

In chapter 10, Shaista Patel and Nisha Nath explore the idea of “settlers of colour,” in upholding ongoing colonial violence and Indigenous dispossession in North America. Building on … ; 17 $1.70 Add