History in our faces on occupied land

This timeline has been created as part of Vancouver Status of Women's Racialization of Poverty Project, a feminist, anti-racist and intersectional research project that analyses how Canada's historic and current legislation creates poverty for racialized communities in very specific and pervasive ways. Our analysis locates the violent history of European colonization of Indigenous1 Peoples in Canada as a central point of the discussion on legislated racism in Canada; as such, VSW recognizes that the challenges faced by Indigenous communities in Canada today are a direct result of Canada's systemic and institutional tactics of genocide and assimilation.