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The Stories We Tell: Indigenous Women and Girls’ Narratives on Police Violence

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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 healing under settler colonialism. This chapter emphasizes the role of police in upholding oppressive structures, including Canada’s criminal justice system.

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Megan Scribe

Megan Scribe (Ininiw iskwew, Norway House Cree Nation) is an interdisciplinary Indigenous feminist researcher, writer and educator. Scribe is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. Her research interests include queered Indigenous feminist theory, narrative and knowledge production, and systems of power and oppression.