Page 9 - An Intersectional Exploration of Disabled and Native Identities

Supporting, Organizing &

Empowering to Transform

Native & Disabled Lives

According to a document on disability
inclusion released by the United
Nations Development Group in 2011,
causality analysis, also known as
human rights-based analysis, can
reveal “how laws, social norms,
traditional practices and institutional

responses affect the fulfillment of the
human rights of persons with
disabilities” (62).

Using employment disparity as an
example issue Disabled American
Indians face today, an immediate cause

for this oppression are barriers to
obtaining transportation on the
reservations, which effects overall
ability of Disabled AI/ANs to search
for and keep jobs. An underlying cause
is discriminatory hiring practices,

which develop out of the
basic/structural causes of dominant
racist and ableist ideologies originating
from colonial violence against First
Nations people and Eurocentric
worldviews that negatively impact
Western conceptualizations and

treatments of disability.