Indigenous Women and Girls report: What every lawyer can do | Alana Robert

By Alana Robert ( July 3, 2019, 8:46 AM EDT) -- During my first week of law school, I heard an impassioned speech from Cree scholar Jeffery Hewitt during a mandatory session for first-year students. The lecture was on the relationship between the Canadian state and Indigenous peoples. Naturally, a central aspect of this lecture addressed the missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people phenomenon (MMIWG2S) in Canada. This included how the consequences of colonial history, disposal by state actors and negative depiction in media are all forces that continue to contribute to the reality of MMIWG2S in Canada. (Two-Spirit is a person who identifies as having both a masculine and a feminine spirit.)...