Dying from Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody – DAL News

Keynote lecture by Sherene Razack

Amidst systematic state violence against Indigenous people, inquiries and inquests serve to obscure the violence of ongoing settler colonialism under the guise of benevolent concern.

Settler society is told that it is improving the lives of Indigenous
people – even as the rates of incarceration of Indigenous men and women and the number of those who die in custody rises.

This powerful critique of the Canadian legal system speaks to many of today’s most pressing issues of social justice.

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