What are the effects of policing on Canada's Native American and Indigenous Communities in Canada 

Topic: Policing Indigenous Communities: An Analysis of the Effects of Policing on Canada's Native American and Indigenous Communities in Canada 

 

1. Thesis Statement (What specific policing efforts? where? when? who is involved? which manifestation of colonialism?)

2. Research Question (What argument do you have/ Have a specific arguement)

 

- 3-4 identifiable main sub arguments for topic to support thesis statement and supported by research that relies primarily on academic sources

 

4. The essay demonstrates the role that a chosen law or element of the legal system in Canada plays in colonization (can be historical, contemporary). 

5. The essay discusses alternatives and/or resistance to such a law or legal system that exemplifies Indigenous resistance and/or decolonization.

 

References: 

 

1. Matheson, Seymour, A., Landry, J., Ventura, K., Arsenault, E., & Anisman, H. (2022). Canada's Colonial Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Review of the Psychosocial and Neurobiological Processes Linking Trauma and Intergenerational Outcomes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(11), 6455-. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116455 

 

2. Sucharov, M. (2022). The Ugly Truth to Canada's Big Lie: A Tale of Ongoing Settler Colonial Genocide of Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Creation of an Apartheid State. Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, 17(2), 196-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/24720038.2022.2046753 

 

3. Savarese. (2017). Challenging Colonial Norms and Attending to Presencing in Stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 29(1), 157-181. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjwl.29.1.157

 

4. Pan, Christian, C. W. M., Pearce, M. E., Blair, A. H., Jongbloed, K., Zhang, H., Teegee, M., Thomas, V., Schechter, M. T., & Spittal, P. M. (2013). The Cedar Project: Impacts of policing among young Aboriginal people who use injection and non-injection drugs in British Columbia, Canada. The International Journal of Drug Policy, 24(5), 449-459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.04.009 

 

5. Chrismas. (2012). The people are the police: Building trust with Aboriginal communities in contemporary Canadian society. Canadian Public Administration, 55(3), 451-470. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-7121.2012.00231.x 

 

6. Cao. (2014). Aboriginal People and Confidence in the Police. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 56(5), 499-525. https://doi.org/10.3138/CJCCJ.2013.E05