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.

Source Authors

Sharon Venne

Keywords

1992 UN Earth Summit, Assimilation, Blood Quantum, Collective Responsibility, Colonial Disease, Colonization, Education, Environmental Degradation, Environmental Protection, Forced Displacement, Genocide, Human Genome Diversity Project, Indigenous Community, Indigenous Culture, Indigenous Disappearance, Indigenous Political Power, Indigenous Resistance, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Self-Determination, Indigenous Sovereignty, Indigenous Status, Kari-Oca Declaration, Land and Identity, Land Connection, Myth of Progress, Political Identity, Self-governance, Slavery, Western Individualism

Themes

Colonization