WMST 1000Y Chapter 3: Indigenous Women and Legacies of Colonization

• School: Trent University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000Y
• Professor: Funke A

Document Summary

Bonita lawrence is an associate professor at york university, whose main focus is on urban, non-status, She is the author of real indians and others: mixed blood urban. This cut out the voice that older women had concerning the land. Even though men (in the native society) would decide what lands to hunt on, women would control land inheritance. By cutting women out, the british essentially removed the people responsible for regulating land access. Introduction of alcohol to the ojibway males, which clouded their judgement and decision making, forcing them to surrender their land.