Amy McQuire speaks to Christa Big Canoe, an Anishinaabe First Nations woman from Canada, and Legal Advocacy Director of the Aboriginal Legal Services in Toronto, and Sherene Razack, a feminist scholar, a professor at the University of Toronto and author of the book ‘Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody.
They are currently in Australia as part of an international research project into deaths in custodies in colonial-settler societies. We discuss the similarities and differences between the two countries, the national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, deaths in custodies, and the dehumanisation of Aboriginal women and peoples.