Gender Troubles

Gender Discrimination & The Indian Act

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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
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