Why are indigenous women experiencing increasing rates of criminalization and incarceration?

1) Indigenous women are the fastest growing demographic of incarcerated peoples in Canada. Choose one of the following in order to frame your paper: a) Why are indigenous women experiencing increasing rates of criminalization and incarceration?

b) Why has the overrepresentation of indigenous women experiencing incarceration led critics to argue that the prison is the ‘new residential school’?

2) Choose a subculture and develop a paper around one of the following questions: a) How does the subculture challenge conventional cultural mores, norms, behaviors, etc?

b) Why did the subculture emerge? What problems or identities was its emergence a response to?