Gender Discrimination & The Indian Act
In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss the history of gender discrimination within the Canadian Indian Act, and the Indigenous women who have been fighting to overturn this sexism since the 1960's.
Show notes:
Indigenous authors and organizations:
Settee, Priscilla. “Indigenous Women Charting Local and Global Pathways Forward.” The English Journal, vol. 106, no. 1, National Council of Teachers of English, 2016, pp. 45–50
Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership, and First Nation Citizenship Fact Sheet, Government of Canada, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
Ontario Native Women's Association, Feathers of Hope
Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2014.
Gehl, Lynn. 2000. “The Queen and I: Discrimination Against Women.” Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers De La Femme Volume 20, Number 2
Borrows, John. 2016. “Unextinguished: Rights And The Indian Act”. University of New Brunswick Law Journal Volume 67.
The Indian Act Said What?, Native Women's Association of Canada
Ongoing Indian Act Inequity Issues- Enfranchisement & Marital Status, Native Women's Association of Canada
Presentation to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs Re: Bill S-3 – An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex- based inequities in registration) Submitted by Dr. Pamela D. Palmater
Other sources:
Gender discrimination persists in Canada’s Indian Act, United Nations committee rules, APTN National News
Bill C-31, Indigenous Foundations, First Nations & Indigenous Studies, UBC
https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1467214955663/1572460311596
Milloy John. 1991. “The Early Indian Acts: Developmental strategy and constitutional change.” In Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian-White Relations in Canada, edited by J.R. Miller. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Day, S. (2019). Equal Status for Indigenous Women— Sometime, Not Now : The Indian Act and Bill S-3. Canadian Woman Studies, 33(1-2). Retrieved from https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/37770
Indian Act Sex Discrimination, Gwen Brodsky
Women in Canadian History: Mary Two-Axe Earley, Rise Up Feminist Archive
