Gender Discrimination & The Indian Act

<p>In this episode, Eva &amp; 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.</p> <p><strong>Show notes:</strong></p> <p>Indigenous authors and organizations:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/26359315.">Settee, Priscilla. “Indigenous Women Charting Local and Global Pathways Forward.” <em>The English Journal</em>, vol. 106, no. 1, National Council of Teachers of English, 2016, pp. 45–50</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.akwesasne.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Bill-S-3-Fact-Sheets.pdf">Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership, and First Nation Citizenship Fact Sheet, Government of Canada, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.feathersofhope.ca/the-ontario-native-womens-association-onwa-celebrates-the-historic-removal-of-over-100-years-of-gender-discrimination-with-the-federal-governments-commitment-to-the-implementation/">Ontario Native Women's Association, Feathers of Hope</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/mohawk-interruptus">Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2014.&nbsp;</a></li> <li><a href="https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/7611">Gehl, Lynn. 2000. <em>“The Queen and I: Discrimination Against Women.”</em> Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers De La Femme Volume 20, Number 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/unblj/article/view/29071">Borrows, John. 2016. “<em>Unextinguished: Rights And The Indian Act”. </em>University of New Brunswick Law Journal<em> </em>Volume 67.</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nwac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Indian-Act-Said-WHAT-pdf-1.pdf"><em>The Indian Act Said What?</em>, Native Women's Association of Canada</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nwac.ca/policy-areas/indian-act/"><em>Ongoing Indian Act Inequity Issues- Enfranchisement &am