The Missing Indigenous Women Canada Refuses to See
TWO THINGS are true about Indigenous girls, women, and gender-diverse people in Canada. First, as Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson notes, they “reproduce and amplify” Indigeneity, the definitive characteristics of Indigenous peoples and culture, diverse as they are. Second, she writes, it is this quality that has made them targets of violence in a country that seeks to...