Dr. Lise Gotell Quoted in CNN article, "Canada vowed to protect its Indigenous women. But they are still being blamed for their own deaths."

"The severe violence that Cindy Gladue suffered needs to be situated within a context [of] ongoing settler-colonial relations marked by gendered violence," said Lise Gotell, professor of womens and gender studies at the University of Alberta.

12 March 2021

Landrex Distinguished Professor Dr. Lise Gotell is quoted in the CNN article, "Canada vowed to protect its Indigenous women. But they are still being blamed for their own deaths." 

For years, activists and Indigenous people in Canada have warned of a disproportionately high number of Indigenous women who have either gone missing or been killed across the country.