7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the “Accidental” Murder of Colten Boushie

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Human to Human: A Poem Written for Pamela George 13
6. Part I Settler Colonialism and Canadian Criminal Justice in Context
7. 1. Memoryscapes: Canadian Chattel Slavery, Gaslighting, and Carceral Phantom Pain 21
8. 2. The Destruction of Families: Canadian Indian Residential Schools and the Refamilialization of Indigenous Children 45
9. 3. Walking on a Settler Road: Days in the Life of Colonialism 73
10. 4. Colonial Mythmaking in Canadian Police Museums on the Prairies 79
11. 5. Original Savages 101
12. Part II The Colonial Violence of Criminal Justice Operations
13. 6. “You’re Reminded of Who You Are in Canada, Real Quick”: Racial Gendered Violence and the Politics of Redress 107
14. 7. Clearing the Plains Continues: Settler Justice and the “Accidental” Murder of Colten Boushie 129
15. 8. Killing in the Name Of: Police Killings of Indigenous People in Canada 153
16. 9. Elders in Prison and Cycles of Abuse 177
17. 10. Gendered Genocide: The Overincarceration of Indigenous Women and Girls 185
18. Part III The Bureaucratic Trappings of Colonial Justice
19. 11. Moral Culpability and Addiction: Sentencing Decisions Two Decades After R. v. Gladue 203
20. 12. Cookie-Cutter Corrections: The Appearance of Scientific Rigour, the Assumption of Homogeneity, and the Fallacy of Division 227
21. 13. To Be Treated as Human: Federally Sentenced Women and the Struggle for Human Rights 241
22. 14. Earth and Spirit: Corrections Is Not Another Word for Healing 251
23. 15. Shit: A Poem Dedicated to All Incarcerated Sisters 257
24. 16. Incompatible or Congruent? Can Indigenous and Western Legal Systems Work Together? 261
25. Part IV Creative Resistances and Reimagining Settler-Colonial Justice
26. 17. Countering the Legal Archive on the Death of Neil Stonechild: Analyzing David Garneau’s Evidence (2006) as an Aesthetic Archive 291
27. 18. Ethics of Representation / Ethics and Representation: Dads Doin’ Time, Incarcerated Indigenous Writers, and the Public Gaze 319
28. 19. In the Name of the Native Brother and Sisterhood 337
29. 20. Spirit of the Stolen: MMIWG2S+ People and Indigenous Grassroots Organizing 347
30. 21. Critique’s Coloniality and Pluriversal Recognition: On the Care as the Ecological Ground of Justice 369
31. Conclusion 397
32. List of Contributors 407