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The development of the Canadian criminal justice system has been central to the dispossession of Indigenous populations and the safeguarding of colonial relations of power. Through the mechanisms of surveillance, segregation, and containment, the justice system ensures that Indigenous peoples remain in a state of economic deprivation, social isolation, and political subjection.
Contributors to this volume examine historical expressions and ongoing reinforcement of settler colonialism with a view to illuminating how it manifests in contemporary police actions and criminal proceedings. Using an anti-colonial lens, alternative conceptualizations and practices of justice are explored. The volume includes testaments from Indigenous people currently in federal penitentiaries across Canada that show current penal and carceral arrangements for Indigenous people.
Vicki Chartrand is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Bishop's University. Josephine Savarese is an associate professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University.
Contributors: Jillian Baker, Gillian Balfour, James Delorme, Jeff Ewert, Paul Hachey, Charles Jamieson, Mark Jackson, El Jones, David B. MacDonald, Chevelle Malcolm, Clint Augustine McIntosh, Carmela Murdocca, Pamela Palmater, Justin Piché, Lorinda Riley, Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Jeff Shantz, Stands with the Wolves (Nolan Turcotte), Kevin Walby, Andrew Woolford.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Human to Human: A Poem Written for Pamela George
Chevelle Malcolm
Part I Settler Colonialism and Canadian Criminal Justice in Context
1. Memoryscapes: Canadian Chattel Slavery, Gaslighting, and Carceral Phantom Pain / Viviane Saleh-Hanna
2. The Destruction of Families: Canadian Indian Residential Schools and the Refamilialization of Indigenous Children / Andrew Woolford
3. Walking on a Settler Road: Days in the Life of Colonialism / Clint Augustine McIntosh
4. Colonial Mythmaking in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies / Kevin Walby and Justin Piché
5. Original Savages / Stands with the Wolves (Nolan Turcotte)
Part II The Colonial Violence of Criminal Justice Operations
6. "You're Reminded of Who You Are in Canada, Real Quick": Racial Gendered Violence and the Politics of Redress / Carmela Murdocca
7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the "Accidental" Murder of Colten Boushie / David B. MacDonald
8. Killing in the Name Of: Police Killings of Indigenous People in Canada / Jeff Shantz
9. Elders in Prison and Cycles of Abuse / Paul Hachey
10. Gendered Genocide: The Overincarceration of Indigenous Women and Girls / Pamela Palmater
Part III The Bureaucratic Trappings of Colonial Justice
11. Moral Culpability and Addiction: Sentencing Decisions Two Decades After R. v. Gladue / Gillian Balfour
12. Cookie-Cutter Corrections: The Appearance of Scientific Rigour, the Assumption of Homogeneity, and the Fallacy of Division / Jeff Ewert
13. To Be Treated as Human: Federally Sentenced Women and the Struggle for Human Rights / Kim Pate
14. Earth and Spirit: Corrections Is Not Another Word for Healing / Charles Jamieson
15. Shit: A Poem Dedicated to All Incarcerated Sisters / El Jones
16. Incompatible or Congruent? Can Indigenous and Western Legal Systems Work Together? / Lorinda Riley
Part IV Creative Resistances and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Justice
17. Countering the Legal Archive on the Death of Neil Stonechild: Analyzing David Garneau's Evidence (2006) as an Aesthetic Archive / Josephine Savarese
18. Ethics of Representation / Ethics and Representation: Dads Doin' Time, Incarcerated Indigenous Writers, and the Public Gaze / Jillian Baker
19. In the Name of the Native Brother and Sisterhood / James Delorme
20. Spirit of the Stolen: MMIWG2S+ People and Indigenous Grassroots Organizing / Vicki Chartrand
21. Critique's Coloniality and Pluriver
Contributors to this volume examine historical expressions and ongoing reinforcement of settler colonialism with a view to illuminating how it manifests in contemporary police actions and criminal proceedings. Using an anti-colonial lens, alternative conceptualizations and practices of justice are explored. The volume includes testaments from Indigenous people currently in federal penitentiaries across Canada that show current penal and carceral arrangements for Indigenous people.
Vicki Chartrand is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Bishop's University. Josephine Savarese is an associate professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University.
Contributors: Jillian Baker, Gillian Balfour, James Delorme, Jeff Ewert, Paul Hachey, Charles Jamieson, Mark Jackson, El Jones, David B. MacDonald, Chevelle Malcolm, Clint Augustine McIntosh, Carmela Murdocca, Pamela Palmater, Justin Piché, Lorinda Riley, Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Jeff Shantz, Stands with the Wolves (Nolan Turcotte), Kevin Walby, Andrew Woolford.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Human to Human: A Poem Written for Pamela George
Chevelle Malcolm
Part I Settler Colonialism and Canadian Criminal Justice in Context
1. Memoryscapes: Canadian Chattel Slavery, Gaslighting, and Carceral Phantom Pain / Viviane Saleh-Hanna
2. The Destruction of Families: Canadian Indian Residential Schools and the Refamilialization of Indigenous Children / Andrew Woolford
3. Walking on a Settler Road: Days in the Life of Colonialism / Clint Augustine McIntosh
4. Colonial Mythmaking in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies / Kevin Walby and Justin Piché
5. Original Savages / Stands with the Wolves (Nolan Turcotte)
Part II The Colonial Violence of Criminal Justice Operations
6. "You're Reminded of Who You Are in Canada, Real Quick": Racial Gendered Violence and the Politics of Redress / Carmela Murdocca
7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the "Accidental" Murder of Colten Boushie / David B. MacDonald
8. Killing in the Name Of: Police Killings of Indigenous People in Canada / Jeff Shantz
9. Elders in Prison and Cycles of Abuse / Paul Hachey
10. Gendered Genocide: The Overincarceration of Indigenous Women and Girls / Pamela Palmater
Part III The Bureaucratic Trappings of Colonial Justice
11. Moral Culpability and Addiction: Sentencing Decisions Two Decades After R. v. Gladue / Gillian Balfour
12. Cookie-Cutter Corrections: The Appearance of Scientific Rigour, the Assumption of Homogeneity, and the Fallacy of Division / Jeff Ewert
13. To Be Treated as Human: Federally Sentenced Women and the Struggle for Human Rights / Kim Pate
14. Earth and Spirit: Corrections Is Not Another Word for Healing / Charles Jamieson
15. Shit: A Poem Dedicated to All Incarcerated Sisters / El Jones
16. Incompatible or Congruent? Can Indigenous and Western Legal Systems Work Together? / Lorinda Riley
Part IV Creative Resistances and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Justice
17. Countering the Legal Archive on the Death of Neil Stonechild: Analyzing David Garneau's Evidence (2006) as an Aesthetic Archive / Josephine Savarese
18. Ethics of Representation / Ethics and Representation: Dads Doin' Time, Incarcerated Indigenous Writers, and the Public Gaze / Jillian Baker
19. In the Name of the Native Brother and Sisterhood / James Delorme
20. Spirit of the Stolen: MMIWG2S+ People and Indigenous Grassroots Organizing / Vicki Chartrand
21. Critique's Coloniality and Pluriver