INDIGST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bsc Young Boys, Finding Dawn, Calinda

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1AA3
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

Historical conflation of indian women with prostitute . Bylaw proposal by a colonial governor in victoria, bc, in !862 (*****) Lives on in stereotypes about indigenous women today. So many of our women are reduced by starvation to become prostitutes to the white man for a living. ~ a letter signed by nine aboriginal leaders in. Why would she prostitute herself if the treaties had been fulfilled? ~ steve morgningchild commenting on the murder of his daughter calinda waterhen in saskatchewan, 1996. In our community, the woman was defined as nourisher, and the man, protector, and as protector, he had the role of helped. She was responsible for the establishment of all of the norms - whether they were political, economic, social or spiritual ~ sylvia maracle. Because of power in terms of economy, politics, able to vito war, etc. Squaw: possibly a variation of algonquin word meaning vagina, or women.