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Revisiting histories of gender-based exclusion and the new politics of Indian identity : Réexaminer l'histoire de l'exclusion fondée sur le sexe et la nouvelle vision politique de l'identité canadienne

10 Jun 2008

As they put it: “Sections 6(1) and 6(2) together with band membership criteria, perpetuate the unequal treatment of Indian men and Indian women by giving fewer rights to the grandchildren of women who married out”.15 Section 6(2) of the Indian Act16 is little different in effect than section 12(1)(b) of the Indian Act.17. [...] At the time, it was feared that status 'Indians' would lose citizenship rights if the Bill of Rights were to supersede the Indian Act.19 There was concern about the right of Aboriginal peoples to determine their own citizenship.20 Placed into historical perspective, the fear itself may also have been generated by the 'White Paper'.21 The 'White Paper' put unease into the heart of status 'Indian' p [...] In the “Thanksgiving Address” -- a story that sets out the order of the universe -- the earth is “our mother who supports our feet”.40 Tekawrahkwa was the first person to have resided in the earth world as we know it. [...] Indeed, the story helped the US to confederate the original thirteen colonies, and to develop a Constitution.48 Though absent from the US Constitution, the Great Law also teaches that women were heads of "matrilineages", and that -- as clan mothers -- they could institute or impeach hereditary chiefs.49 It teaches that women had the ability to influence the decisions of council.50 The story has ev [...] It follows that any type of analysis (or "liberating strategy") be committed to realizing – and addressing – both types of discrimination.67 The loss of Indian status – and Indian status in general – is not something that belongs to women (or “individuals”), it is something that belongs to all Aboriginal peoples because of the racism and sexism that is section 6(2).68 Put simply, status Indians ex
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Authors

Cannon, Martin J

Pages
23
Published in
Canada

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