Tight controls: barbed wire and Indigenous Peoples

There is a shared experience in life lived behind the walls of Canadian penitentiaries: whether you are a prisoner or an employee, if you are of First Nations, Métis or Inuit ancestry, you are met with systemic racism, discrimination, bullying, and harassment.

Barbed wires have come to represent a particular place for Indigenous peoples, writes Senator Mary Jane McCallum. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM, JAMES COOKE

September 4, 2023

The book Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces by Jon Anderson features the following quote (Razac 200: 22-23): "By the end of the century, barbed wire was used to parcel off…[some] Indian lands. It chopped space into little bits and broke up t...

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