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In Kahente Horn-Miller & Margaret Kress (Eds), Teaching and Learning through Place, People and Practices: A Global Intersection of Righting Relations in Indigenous Land-Based Education. Canadian Scholars’/Women’s Press. Steeves, Paulette. (2022). We Have Always Been Here; Reclaiming and Rewriting Indigenous Histories of Turtle Island.
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation was created on March 30, 1998. It was established following consultations with residential school survivors, the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, the Métis National Council, and the Native Women's Association of Canada. [2]
The 2014 and 2015 Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) reports on MMIWG identified "narrow and incomplete causes of homicides of Indigenous women and girls in Canada." [18] The "often-cited statistic that Indigenous men are responsible for 70% of murders of Indigenous women and girls is not factually based." [18] [21]
The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC; French: Association des femmes autochtones du Canada [AFAC]) is a national Indigenous organization representing the political voice of Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse people in Canada, inclusive of First Nations on and off reserve, status and non-status, disenfranchised, Métis, and Inuit.
In 1990, a report called Creating Choices was issued by a task force aiming to improve the lives of and create more choices for federally sentenced women. [10] One of the recommendations of the task force was the creation of a healing lodge "where Aboriginal federally sentenced women may serve all or part of their sentences". [9]
Indigenous feminisms (Indigenous feminism) have also taken a different trajectory from the mainstream, white, Anglo-Canadian women's movement. Indigenous women have largely not participated in that movement, in part because Indigenous women's organizations have focused on issues related to colonialism and cultural discrimination.
Indigenous feminism is an intersectional theory and practice of feminism that focuses on decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, and human rights for Indigenous women and their families. The focus is to empower Indigenous women in the context of Indigenous cultural values and priorities, rather than mainstream, white, patriarchal ones. [1]
The following is an alphabetical list of topics related to Indigenous peoples in Canada, comprising the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .