04. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

This section includes resources about Indigenous women, Two Spirited and LGBT2SQ people and inclusion.

• Anderson, Kim and Bonita Lawrence (Eds.). (2003). Strong Women Stories: Native Vision and Community Survival. Toronto. Sumach Press, 2003.
• Blair, Peggy J. (2005). Rights of Aboriginal Women On- and Off-Reserve. Vancouver: The Scow Institute.
• Brotman, S., Ryan, B., Jalbert, Y. & Rowe, B. (2002). Reclaiming Space-Regaining Health — The Health Care Experiences of Two-Spirit People in Canada. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 14(1), 67-87, doi: 10.1300/J041v14n01_04.
• Canadian Teachers’ Federation. (2020). Publication Catalogue: Indigenous Education.
• Chacaby, Ma-Nee, Plummer, Mary Louisa. (2016). A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder. Winnipeg, Manitoba. University of Manitoba Press.
• Cole, Susan C. (1994). Voices of First Nations women: their politics and political organizing in Vancouver, B.C. (Master’s Thesis). Available from the University of British Columbia.
• Driskill et al. (Eds.). (2011). Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. Tucson, Arizona. The University of Arizona Press.
• Garcia-Perez Grisel Maria and Rojas-Primus Constanza. (2017). Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education. Hershey, PA. IGI Global.
• Hanson, G. (2009). A relational approach to cultural competence. (Eds.) Guthrie Valaskakis Gail, Guimond Eric, and Dion Stout Madeleine. Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture. (2012). Winnipeg, Manitoba. University of Manitoba Press.
• Jacobs, Beverley. (2000). International Law/The Great Law of Peace. (Master’s Thesis) Available from the University of Saskatchewan. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
• Jamieson, Kathleen. (1978). Indian Women and the Law in Canada: Citizens Minus. Ottawa: Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Abebooks.com.
• Kelm, Mary-Ellen & Lorne Townsend, Eds. (2006). In the Days of Our Grandmothers- A Reader in Aboriginal Women’s History in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Lawrence, Bonita. (2004). “Real” Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native peoples and indigenous Nationhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
• Maracle, Lee. (1996). I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism. Vancouver: Press Gang.
• Margaret Robinson. (2014). “A Hope to Lift Both My Spirits”: Preventing Bisexual Erasure in Aboriginal Schools, Journal of Bisexuality, 14:1, 18 35, DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2014.872457.
• Morgensen, Lauria Scott. (2011). Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization.
• Razack, Sherene H. (2000). Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 15:2, pp. 91-30.
• Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry Manitoba. (1999). The Justice System and Aboriginal People. Chapter 13: Aboriginal Women. Accessible online.
• Ristock, J., Zoccole, A., and Passante, L. (2010). Aboriginal Two-Spirit and LGBTQ Migration, Mobility and Health Research Project: Winnipeg, Final Report, November 2010.
• Robinson, Margaret. (2017). Two-Spirit and Bisexual People: Different Umbrella, Same Rain. Journal of Bisexuality. 1-23. 10.1080/15299716.2016.1261266.
• Robinson M. (2014). Two-Spirited Sexuality and Resisting Assimilation. In: Out Proud: Stories of Pride, Courage and Social Justice. D Gosse (Ed.), St. John’s, NF: Breakwater Books, 144-149. Available on Amazon.
• Silman, Janet. (1987). Enough is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out. Toronto, Ontario. Women’s Press.
• Sterritt, Angela. (2017). Racialization of Poverty: Indigenous Women, the Indian Act and Systemic Oppression: Reasons for Resistance. Vancouver Status of Women.
• Suzack, Cheryl, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman, eds. (2010). Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture. Vancouver: UBC Press.
• Taylor, C. (2009). Health and Safety Issues for Aboriginal Transgender/Two Spirit People in Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Aboriginal Community-based HIV/AIDS Research, 2, 63-84.
• The Assembly of First Nations. (2017). First Nations and First Nations Persons with Disabilities: Engagement on Federal Accessibility Legislation. March 2017 Report (Draft).
• University of Toronto. Research Guides. (2020). Two Spirit and LGBTQIA Indigenous Resources. Retrieved August 31, 2020. Web.
• Voyageur, Cora. (2008). Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century. Montreal. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Williams, Robert. (1990). Gendered Checks and Balances: Understanding the Legacy of White Patriarchy in an American Indian Cultural Context. Georgia Law Review 24: 1990. 1034.