The development of the Canadian criminal justice system has been central to the dispossession of Indigenous populations and the safeguarding of colonial relations of power. Through the mechanisms of surveillance, segregation, and containment, the justice system ensures that Indigenous peoples remain in a state of economic deprivation, social isolation, and political subjection.
Contributors to this volume examine historical expressions and ongoing reinforcement of settler colonialism with a view to illuminating how it manifests in contemporary police actions and criminal proceedings. Using an anti-colonial lens, alternative conceptualizations and practices of justice are explored. The volume includes testaments from Indigenous people currently in federal penitentiaries across Canada that show current penal and carceral arrangements for Indigenous people.
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- Athabasca, CA
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- Vicki Chartrand and Josephine Savarese
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Half Title 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 14
- Human to Human: A Poem Written for Pamela George 24
- Part I Settler Colonialism and Canadian Criminal Justice in Context 30
- 1. Memoryscapes: Canadian Chattel Slavery, Gaslighting, and Carceral Phantom Pain 32
- 2. The Destruction of Families: Canadian Indian Residential Schools and the Refamilialization of Indigenous Children 56
- 3. Walking on a Settler Road: Days in the Life of Colonialism 84
- 4. Colonial Mythmaking in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies 90
- 5. Original Savages 112
- Part II The Colonial Violence of Criminal Justice Operations 116
- 6. “You’re Reminded of Who You Are in Canada, Real Quick”: Racial Gendered Violence and the Politics of Redress 118
- 7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the “Accidental” Murder of Colten Boushie 140
- 8. Killing in the Name Of: Police Killings of Indigenous People in Canada 164
- 9. Elders in Prison and Cycles of Abuse 188
- 10. Gendered Genocide: The Overincarceration of Indigenous Women and Girls 196
- Part III The Bureaucratic Trappings of Colonial Justice 212
- 11. Moral Culpability and Addiction: Sentencing Decisions Two Decades After R. v. Gladue 214
- 12. Cookie-Cutter Corrections: The Appearance of Scientific Rigour, the Assumption of Homogeneity, and the Fallacy of Division 238
- 13. To Be Treated as Human: Federally Sentenced Women and the Struggle for Human Rights 252
- 14. Earth and Spirit: Corrections Is Not Another Word for Healing 262
- 15. Shit: A Poem Dedicated to All Incarcerated Sisters 268
- 16. Incompatible or Congruent?: Can Indigenous and Western Legal Systems Work Together? 272
- Part IV Creative Resistances and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Justice 300
- 17. Countering the Legal Archive on the Death of Neil Stonechild: Analyzing David Garneau’s Evidence (2006) as an Aesthetic Archive 302
- 18. Ethics of Representation / Ethics and Representation: Dads Doin’ Time, Incarcerated Indigenous Writers, and the Public Gaze 330
- 19. In the Name of the Native Brother and Sisterhood 348
- 20. Spirit of the Stolen: MMIWG2S+ People and Indigenous Grassroots Organizing 358
- 21. Critique’s Coloniality and Pluriversal Recognition: On the Care as the Ecological Ground of Justice 380
- Conclusion 408
- Contributors 418
