Decolonizing the North
From: Beyond Shelters
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Arlene Haché describes her personal journey from homelessness to leadership. She characterizes the disproportional representation of homeless Indigenous women requiring the services of the shelter she ran as a form of colonization. She analyzes how the Yellowknife Women’s Shelter addressed this phenomenon and how homelessness services should continue to develop in the North.
Contributors
Haché
Arlene Haché is a grassroots woman who has experienced homelessness and traumatic impacts of childhood and youth violence. She is well known across Canada’s Arctic as an advocate for social change and as a result of her work was awarded the Order of
Arlene
Canada in 2009 and then the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Arlene is a published author and has participated on several research teams that give voice to people with lived experience. She currently works as a Program Developer with the Temiskaming Native Women’s Support Group and provides technical support to the District of Temiskaming Elders Council. She serves as a Director on several national Canadian boards addressing issues related to mental health and homelessness and currently sits on the Governing Council of the Huairou Commission. Arlene also sat on the national Advisory Committee on Homelessness chaired by the Honourable Adam Vaughan.
