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In Disability as a Colonial Construct: The Missing Discourse of Culture in Conceptualizations of Disabled Indigenous Children (2020), Nicole Ineese-Nash explores how dominant Canadian ideas about disability often clash with Indigenous worldviews, demonstrating that disability labels, especially when applied to Indigenous children, are shaped by colonial systems and can conflict with Indigenous understandings of belonging and community.

This Factsheet summarizes five understandings of ‘disability’ as a colonial construct.