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From ![]() Sexualized GenocideFrom: 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 … | Pamela Palmater | 54 | 2020 | $5.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! SmallpoxFrom: 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, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 66 | 2022 | $6.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Survival of the Fattest Disabled 2S in the NorthFrom: 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 … | Valdine Alycia | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! SyphilisFrom: 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, … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 56 | 2022 | $5.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Systems and InstitutionsFrom: 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. | Suzanne Methot | 26 | 2023 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Terror, Anger, Grief, LossFrom: 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 … | Suzanne Methot | 26 | 2023 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() the seven sacred ways of healingFrom: 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. | jaye simpson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls’ Narratives on Police ViolenceFrom: 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 … | Megan Scribe | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Whiteness of MedicineFrom: 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 … | Jaris Swidrovich | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! 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 … | Sheelah McLean | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler WomanhoodFrom: 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 … | Willow Samara Allen | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! TuberculosisFrom: 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 … | Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay | 61 | 2022 | $6.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Unmasking the Whiteness of NursingFrom: White Benevolence |
In chapter 12, Sharissa Hantke uses the lens of antiracism to examine how whiteness operates in the field of nursing. | Sharissa Hantke | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! What Can “Settler of Colour” Teach Us?: A Conversation of the Complexities of Decolonization in White UniversitiesFrom: 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 … | Nisha Nath; Shaista Patel | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |









