Indigenous Girlhood: Narratives of Colonial Care in Law and Literature by Megan ScribeDr. Scribe realized that what was lost in this narrative of missing and murdered Indigenous women was that a lot of these “women” are girls who are supposed to be in somebody's care – whether that be their parents or a guardian, and in many cases the state. More so, the state failed its responsibilities.
What these official narratives were suggesting, Scribe argues, is that the girls themselves are responsible. “I wanted to flip the narrative,” she says, “and expose the fact that Canada is taking a lot of Indigenous girls into custody – through the child welfare system, educational boarding arrangements, and carceral systems. And a lot of girls die while in those spaces.”
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