WGS373H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women, Fugitive Slave Laws
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Wgs week 2: violence by the royal canadian mounted police. They load us all up on a bus, and took us it was law that we had to go, and if we didn"t go, then my parents would be in trouble. (maureen gloria johnson, Trc, survivors speak : north west mountain police (renamed rcmp) Indian-pass" system (late 1800s: north/western territories, residential schools. Slave patrols" ( patrollers": fugitive slave laws, sun-down towns. Slave pass" system (1600s: settler colonialism, discourse of crime. While serial killers are sensational, they are not the primary factor contributing to murdered and missing indigenous women and girls in. What if the rapists or killers are police? . Controlling images : respectability politics, poverty crimes/survival strategies, black women in public. Shift the blame for black women"s subjugation onto black women themselves . There"s a lot of communities in which fathers are less present than they have been or they might be in the past.
