The Genocide Continues
Population Control and the Sterilization of Indigenous Women
$34.54
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2026
Summary
Indigenous Peoples in Canada have experienced coerced sterilization under eugenics legislation since the 1930s, and the violence has never stopped, even though eugenics fell into disrepute. In The Genocide Continues, Karen Stote traces the historical, political, economic and policy context informing the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women from 1970 onward. She shows how a powerful idea paved the way for the expanded violations of Indigenous People’s bodies and futures. That ide…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781773637693 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 177363769X |
| Author: | Karen Stote |
| Publisher: | Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 15mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
“Karen Stote has skillfully woven archival documents with evidence in policy, philanthropy, and medicine to show the repulsive side of Canada’s health care system as an assimilation tool. This book recounts the reasons why forced and coercive sterilization of Indigenous Peoples happened and is still happening.”
– Karen Lawford, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Indigenous Midwifery, McMaster UniversityKaren Stote
Karen Stote is a queer settler with Irish, Scottish and English roots who grew up on the unceded territories of the Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet) and L’nu (Mi’kmaw) Peoples. She is an associate professor in women and gender studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, located within the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, Chonnonton and Haudenosaunee peoples. She teaches on Indigenous-settler history, feminism and the politics of decolonization, and issues of reproductive and environmental justice.
Stote has been researching the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women for nearly 20 years and is the author of An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women. She has served as an expert witness and appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights and the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health in their investigations into coerced sterilization in Canada. She is regularly consulted by other researchers and media. Stote is a SSHRC-funded scholar whose work has appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Sacred Bundles Unborn, 2nd Edition.
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