Ravensong Sparknotes

Many years ago the colonization in Canada has made a situation and condition that violated the right of indigenous people especially indigenous women. Some of the consequences of colonizer’s act are the violence that indigenous women are still facing. When the colonizers came to Canada, they constructed first nation as uncivilized and savages, and by this attitude toward them treat them as inferior to themselves. Moreover by laws and acts like Indian Act took many of their freedom and their rights from them and forced them to restructure their family structure and live in reserves and send their children to residential school to be away from their culture and their family and become the one that is standard and normal for a European society.
Based on this way of thinking Indigenous people were constructed as uncivilized and unimportant people. This kind of attitude toward a group of people and the actions based on that is itself a violation of the right of those people. It is because colonizers gave the freedom and rights of the first nations. Their lives were not important and they had no rights to ask for more rights. For example in the novel Ravensong when flu comes to the area hospitals in the town do not care about people dying in the village and they do not treat them or help them in any way, so people in Stacey community are left alone and a lot of them die (Maracle 51). By bringing this she illustrate how unimportant and lonely the community was and there was no help when they needed even with the matter of life and
She brings the case of Pamela George’s murder and how two white university student males get away with their “mistake” and Pamela stays a worthless prostitute in the eyes of justice. Since the justice and rights and benefits were only for colonial citizens the society didn’t do almost anything for indigenous women and even rob their freedom and happiness. The spatial practices were achieved by several laws like zoning law and the Indian people had to stay in their reserves based on the Indian Act. Their children was taken from them and moved to residential schools, and forced children to become “civilized” and speak just English and practice colonizers culture, and go to church, unless they could get beaten hardly. Often they could not see their families for months or even years. Like in the film” Finding Down”, Down’s brother says how Dawn was crying whenever she talked about her experiences in residential school and she never forget the traumas in there. In addition, the Pass system came later in 1885 that every Indian had to go to a NWMP office to get a permission to enter the city. One of the goals of this system was to limit the number of Indian woman of “abandoned character” to enter town (Razak 129-131). Beside all usually there was no pass given to aboriginal women unless they