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The group's primary goal was to eradicate Section 12, paragraph 1(b) of the Indian Act, which removed the Indian status of Indigenous women who married non-Indigenous men, and prohibited them from passing status onto their children. Among others, the group was founded by Mary Two-Axe Earley, Kathleen Steinhauer and Nellie Carlson. IRIW used the ...
Marion Ironquill Meadmore (born 1936) is an Ojibwa-Cree Canadian activist and lawyer. Meadmore was the first woman of the First Nations to attain a law degree in Canada. She founded the first Indian and Métis Friendship Centre in Canada to assist Indigenous people who had relocated to urban areas with adjustments to their new communities.
The History of women in Canada is the study of the historical experiences of women living in Canada and the laws and legislation affecting Canadian women. In colonial period of Canadian history, Indigenous women's roles were often challenged by Christian missionaries, and their marriages to European fur traders often brought their communities into greater contact with the outside world.
The final report of the inquiry concluded that the high level of violence directed at Indigenous women and girls in Canada (First Nations, Inuit, Métis or FNIM women and girls) is "caused by state actions and inactions rooted in colonialism and colonial ideologies." It also concluded that the crisis constituted an ongoing "race, identity and ...
With a small group of Alberta women, including Nellie Carlson and Kathleen Steinhauer, connected to her through their Saddle Lake families, Jenny forged links with Mary Two-Axe Earley at Kahnawake (Quebec) and other Indigenous women across Canada to create the Indian Rights for Indian Women (IRIW) association in 1971.. She remained the ...
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 ...
Aboriginal Canada Portal; The Atlas of Canada—Explore Our Maps—History; The Canadian Museum of Civilization-First Peoples Section; Films about Aboriginal peoples at NFB.ca; First Nations Seeker; A History of Aboriginal Treaties and Relations in Canada; Map of historical territory treaties with Aboriginal peoples in Canada
Pauktuutit also has a subgroup called the Women's Business Network, intended to support Inuit women in the workforce and provide advice and resources for starting small businesses and becoming self-employed. [6] The organization is heavily involved in political activism and advocacy work focused on better legislation for Inuit women.