STORIES OF RESISTANCE

Current research stories Indigenous women from settler colonial perspectives of wellbeing. These perspectives perpetuate narratives that Indigenous women exist in experiences of ill health. While it is important to understand, these narratives fail to address the structures that uphold these health outcomes for Indigenous women and perpetuate settler colonial attempts towards erasure. Indigenous women’s stories of health, success, and joy deserve to be told. These stories act as resistance towards the settler colonial systems of violence through generational healing. These stories are often nested deep within our communities. The purpose of this project is to explore the ways in which Indigenous women’s stories of strength disrupt the settler colonial notions of what it means to be well.