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She Must Be Civilized, She Paints Her Toenails

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This factsheet discusses how colonization has subjected Indigenous Peoples to slavery, genocide, disease and forced displacement. Indigenous Peoples, however, fight on in resistance and resurgence. The continued survival of Indigenous Peoples threatens colonizer’s settler occupation of Indigenous lands.

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References

Venne, Sharon. (2019). "She must be civilized: She paints her toenails." In Neyooxet Greymorning (Ed.), Being Indigenous: Perspectives of Activism, Culture, Language and Identity (pp. 171-184). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429454776-14/must-civilized-paints-toenails-sharon-venne.

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Sharon Venne

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Colonization