Her book focuses on the myriad issues and struggles that Indigenous men and women have faced and will continue to face as a result of colonialism. During his speech, Palmater addressed the severe effects of cultural assimilation that permeated Indigenous communities, particularly the residential school system and the Indian Act, which have been discussed extensively in lectures and readings. Such policies were created by European settlers to institutionalize colonialism and maintain the social and cultural hierarchy that made Indigenous people an inferior group. Palmater also explained that according to news reports, an Indigenous baby in Manitoba is being removed every day by the government and placed in social care (CTVNews.ca Staff, 2015). This echoes Andrea Smith's argument in “Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing” that colonialism continues to affect Indigenous people through genocide (2006, p. 68). While such government actions do not constitute physical acts of genocide, where 90% of the indigenous population was wiped out, it is this modern cultural assimilation that succeeded the residential school system and the Indian Act embodies the colonialism and genocide (Larkin, November 2017). 4,