Indigenous Communities and Family Violence

Finally, the authors of a range of other kinds of violence refocus conversations on ‘family related to colonization in Canada, violence’ using a decolonial social including the historic violence of determinants framework in order dispossession, residential school to redefine ‘family’ and ‘violence’ violence, state violence, missing to reflect the diverse realities of and murdered women and girls, [...] This included a holistic have identified the importance cultural and family roles continues understanding of health and well- of developing understandings to negatively impact the ability of being, as well as an understanding and responses to violence, which communities to revitalize their of the connections between the connect with current struggles for cultural knowledge and models of individual [...] For example, a 2006 definitions of violence that reflected report produced for Indian and the complexities of colonial power Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) 7 A discourse about family violence relations and the intersecting and detailed the results of research about in Indigenous communities first interrelated forms of violence the views of Indigenous women emerged in Canada in the early-to- experi [...] The impact of colonialism on men’s that focus on men’s roles in family roles and power is discussed in the violence and note that the studies The disruption of culturally- literature, as violence is “viewed as reflect discourse of men alongside a specific gender roles in Indigenous the expression of a domestic conflict range of other actors, which makes communities and families is in which partner [...] In a study of domestic violence with Inuit communities in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Mancini Billson (2006) states that Inuit identified ‘shifting gender regimes’ and lack of balance between men and women as being the cause of domestic violence and a direct outcome of multiple effects of colonialism, including the forced relocation of Inuit in the 1960s from the land to hamlets.