Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women
by
Karen Stote
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting...