Personal stories, professional insights mix in book about forced sterilizations of Indigenous women – Windspeaker
“Canadians and Canada have been permitted to be docile and ignorant of our lived realties for far too long to the point that we’re dying when we go to health care, hospital. How many lives will it take?” — Morningstar Mercredi
It’s “really ironic,” says author and editor Morningstar Mercredi, that it took nine months in 2021 for contributors to Sacred Bundles Unborn to complete their submissions.
“After nine months we gave birth to the book,” said Mercredi.
The irony lies in the subject of the book. It’s about women who can no longer have children because of forced or coerced sterilization.
In 2022, this practise is still legal in Canada, and other countries. It’s something Mercredi and others want to put an end to.
