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From the Publisher:

"Indigenous peoples are vastly overrepresented in the Canadian criminal justice system.

Rutherdale and Pickles write, Page 1, 11:

"Women’s raced and classed bodies were a vital “contact zone” in the Canadian colonial past. During colonization, women and bodies mattered and were bound up in creating and perpetuating an often hidden, complex, contradictory, and fraught history. Women occupied the spaces of colonial encounter between Aboriginals and newcomers as both colonizers and the colonized, transgressing restrictive boundaries and making history.

Publisher's Abstract:

"This study explores the application of liberalism between 1877 and 1927 in the land which became southern Alberta and the British Columbia interior. In these regions, liberalism acted as an exclusionary force that enabled the use of extraordinary measures to remove Indigenous peoples from their ancestral territories. The expansion of liberalism, diverse and multifaceted in construction but undeniably debilitating in its impact on First Nations people, was facilitated, fashioned, and justified by means of disciplinary surveillance.

 Author's Preface, Page v-vii:

"In two full centuries the Hudson's Bay Company, under its original Charter, undertook financial enterprises of the greatest magnitude, promoted exploration and discovery, governed a vast domain in the northern part of the American Continent, and preserved to the British Empire the wide territory handed over to Canada in 1870. For nearly a generation since that time the veteran Company has carried on successful trade in competition with many rivals, and has shown the vigour of youth.

Publisher's Abstract:

"Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies and medical practices on shaping our understanding of contemporary reproductive rights.

In An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women, Stote provides an extensive history and analysis of the sexual sterilization of Indigenous women across Canada, and argues that these sterilizations aimed to guarantee the Canadian Government’s policy of assimilation and genocide. Stote also analyzes genocide in regards to the Canadian Criminal Code as well as compensation efforts for sterilizations in contemporary Canadian history.

Publisher's Abstract:

"Policing is a controversial subject, generating considerable debate. One issue of concern has been “racial profiling” by police, that is, the alleged practice of targeting individuals and groups on the basis of “race.” Racialized Policing argues that the debate has been limited by its individualized frame. As well, the concentration on police relations with people of colour means that Aboriginal people’s encounters with police receive far less scrutiny.

Publisher's Abstract: 

"What causes Native Canadians to be disproportionately represented in the prisons, unemployment lines and welfare lists, in the drunk tanks and the morgues? Inside Out is one story behind the stereotypes - the autobiography of a young Native man, James Tyman, who grew up with racism, turned to crime and self-destruction, and ended up in jail. Repeatedly.

The methodology used by the authors/interviewers/researchers incorporated a phenomenological approach, allowing for an unstructured interviewing that allowed interviewees to talk at length. Unstructured interviews may be less subject to researcher bias, which may arise from topic theme, traditional questionnaires, or surveys. Ninety six interviews were conducted with 83 women from seven communities.

Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History is a collection of 14 essays. 

Excerpt from Author's Introduction, Page 18:

"Movement, geographic expanse, and family defined the elements and contours of Metis culture, community, and, eventually, nationhood. They became who they are—a people called Metis—not in spite of their mobility but because of it.