Indigenous women are vastly overrepresented in Canada’s federal prisons and represent the fastest growing prison population in Canada. This critical commentary utilizes a decolonial framework to examine how being Indigenous and female increases one’s risk of being victimized, murdered, and subject to colonial control by exploring the connections between the construction of Indigenous women as less than human and the use of carceral space to control, destroy, and assimilate this population. Specifically, the authors apply Woolford and Gacek’s notion of genocidal carcerality to the intersectional forces of systemic racism and discrimination that result in their overincarceration. Further, the article critiques the Indigenization of Canada’s federal correctional service for failing to meet the needs of this population and for perpetuating an assimilative and stereotypical portrayal of Indigenous women that perpetuates colonial harm.

在加拿大联邦监狱中，土著妇女的人数过多，并且是加拿大增长最快的监狱人口。该批判性评论利用非殖民主义的框架，探讨了土著妇女和女性如何增加受害，被谋杀和受到殖民地控制的风险，方法是探索土著妇女的建设少于人类，并利用食管空间来控制，摧毁和吸收这些人口。具体而言，作者将Woolford和Gacek的种族灭绝性概念适用于导致种族隔离和过度种族歧视的系统性种族主义和歧视的交叉力量。进一步，