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Disability as a colonial construct: The missing discourse of culture in conceptualizations of disabled Indigenous children

2020

Ineese-Nash, N.

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This article persents Indigenous perspectives and understandings of disability and argues that the dominant discourse on Indigenous children's disability conflicts with Indigenous perspectives, thus perpetuates assimiliation practices that maintain colonial harm.

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Disability as a colonial construct: The missing discourse of culture in conceptualizations of disabled Indigenous children.

Ineese-Nash, N. (2020). Disability as a colonial construct: The missing discourse of culture in conceptualizations of disabled Indigenous children. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 9(3), 28-51.

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