Canadian Indigenous female leadership and political agency in climate change

• Main Author: Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2014
• Subjects: indigenous activism; women’s political agency; women’s organizations; Climate change; climate justice; environmental justice; indigenous rights; gender equity; political agency; indigenous women’s leadership; environmental racism; Canada; Harper; First Nations
• Online Access: https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37138

The Canadian federal election of 2015 was a watershed moment for women’s political agency, indigenous activism and climate justice in Canada. Since 1990, skyrocketing fossil fuel extraction, especially in the Alberta tar sands, had generated escalating environmental crises on First Nations territori...