History of Racist and Gendered Perceptions of Indigenous Women
The following provides a brief historical overview of the construction of Indigenous women as morally inferior individuals on the basis of their race and gender (for a list of sources used, please consult bibliography in "additional notes"): Legitimizing the presence of the colonial state is an ongoing process, requiring the manufacturing, maintenance and transmogrification of narratives that reinforce hierarchies of race, gender and sexuality and that also reflect shifts in national and international socio-economic and political climates.