Critical Response to "Finding Dawn". Club Native. Social Sciences. Term Paper

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Critical Response to "Finding Dawn"
Finding Dawn, an award-winning 2006 National Film Board documentary film by Christine Welsh sheds light on the violence inflicted on Aboriginal women in Canada. Christine Welsh spots the issue of violence against women, mainly including disappearance, missing, and murdered Indigenous women in Canada over the past 30 years. Out of an estimated 500 missing and murdered indigenous women victims, Dawn Crey, Ramona Wilson, and Daleena Kay Bosse are the three whose fate has been discussed in the documentary (Welsh). Most of these aboriginal women are drug-addicted who live on the fringes of society and are involved in sex trafficking. This act of violence raised various burning questions about the safety of an indigenous woman in Canadian society. This engrossing documentary shifts the gaze of people on world-wide culture impunity and tragedies based on deep social, historical, and economic factors that contributes to the widespread violence against women. It illustrates the transgressed functioning of sexuality/gender violence and social norms, and how it interlinks with today’s world based on historical, social, and economic perceptions.
Violence on Historical Bases
The experiences of violence of indigenous women and girls are closely linked with the history of colonization, poverty, wider communities’ exclusion, better contextualized in the form of inequalities based on gender, race, age sex, ethnicity, disability, and reinforcing of oppression. This film eventually shifts our sight towards the matter of MMIW with the roiling tears and freckle on the faces of the victims’ relatives in the remembrance of their lost beloved. As we look back in the history of Canada, it is steeped in violence against natives, and still, the rate of aboriginal women's disappearance and murder is much higher than the rate of non-aboriginal women. Colonial land acquisition was imposed through gender violence and targeted gender abuse to break the relation of aboriginal people to their territories by targeting those at the core of that connection: indigenous women. It colonial acquisition history is expressed in the structural vulnerability in which all aboriginal people have to live, where women, children, and two-spirit people are the most acutely encountered. Through racism, the institutions of the extractive sector, education, housing, child welfare, social security, and the justice system are fraught. This truth makes it incredibly challenging to promote reform on any particular front. Even we can observe the failed criminal justice system in resolving these mysterious cases of missing and murdered women since the beginning.
Moreover, as we have been observed that not only in Canada but also in other countries of the world such as Australia, USA, historically this MMWI violence has rooted since the colonial acquisition, and till today’s world these sates are facing. This historically rooted violence still has impacts on the present world and our lives. It raises questions about the safety and position of women which they are leading under the stress of this epidemic violence. However, as per my observation these indigenous women and girls are the st...