Uncovering What Is Hidden: Colonialism’s Violence Against Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit Individuals (#MMIWG2S)

Ionah ME Scully
Nov 5 · 6 min read

With Halloween approaching, Pocahottie costumes seem to be more prolific than actual Indigenous women. Not costumes, however, Indigenous women are various. Many are physicians, professors, chancellors, students, storytellers, parents, sex workers, store clerks, and healers. Some are not cis. Some are nonbinary or Two Spirit. Many of us are activists and teachers. We are all resilient and almost all of us are many of these things at once and more than can…

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    Ionah ME Scully

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    Michel Band (Cree-Métis) & White 2S (they/them). PhD Student (Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University). PAGE Fellow 2019–20.

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