The Genocide Continues: Population Control and the Sterilization of Indigenous Women

Karen Stote is a queer settler with Irish, Scottish and English roots who grew up on the unceded territories of the Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet) and L'nu (Mi'kmaw) Peoples. She is associate professor in women and gender studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, located within the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Chonnonton and Haudenosaunee peoples. She teaches on Indigenous-settler history, feminism and the politics of decolonization, and issues of reproductive and environmental justice. She has been researching the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women for nearly 20 years and is the author of An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women. She has served as expert witness and appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights and the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health in their investigations into coerced sterilization in Canada, and she is regularly consulted by other researchers and media. She is a SSHRC-funded scholar whose work has appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, Native American and Indigenous Studies and Sacred Bundles Unborn, 2nd Edition.