Indigenous Women and Street Gangs
- Author Name: Robert Henry
- Award Year: 2022
- Publisher: University of Alberta Press
- Publication Date: 2021
- ISBN: 9781772125498
- Author Website: https://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/RHenry#ResearchAreas
About the Book
Amber, Bev, Chantel, Jazmyne, Faith, and Jorgina are six Indigenous women previously involved in street gangs or the street lifestyle in Saskatoon, Regina, and Calgary. In collaboration with Indigenous Studies scholar Robert Henry (Métis), they share their stories using photovoice, a process where participants are understood to be the experts of their own experiences. Each photograph in the book was selected and placed in order to show how the authors have changed with their experiences. Following their photographs, the authors each share a narrative that begins with their earliest memory and continues to the present. Throughout, these women show us the meaning of survivance, a process of resistance, resurgence, and growth.
About the Author
Robert Henry, PhD, is Métis from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan and is Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Indigenous Studies. Robert has published in the areas of Indigenous street gangs, Indigenous masculinity, Indigenous health and criminal justice, youth subcultures, and settler colonial thought. Robert focuses on the concept of survivance and its applicability within Indigenous research more broadly, in order to contextualize its usage within street spaces, and how Indigenous peoples continue to survive, resist and resurge their presence, challenging settler colonialism. Robert uses survivance as a way to comprehend pragmatic agency of Indigenous peoples engaged in street lifestyles, specifically street gangs.