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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.
Native rights activists Janice Acoose and Fay Blaney are interviewed in the film. [2] Christine Welsh has produced, written and directed films for more than 30 years. She is an associate professor at the University of Victoria, where she teaches courses in indigenous women's studies and indigenous cinema. [1]
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.
Despite Canada's reputation as a progressive society, its continued forced sterilization of Indigenous women puts it alongside countries like India and China, where the practice mostly affects ...
"Stolen Sisters: A Human Rights Response to Discrimination and Violence against Indigenous Women in Canada" (PDF). Amnesty International of Canada. October 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 27, 2008. "The Death of Helen Betty Osborne". Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission. Le Moal, Dan (August 21, 2000).
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 film's title comes from an essay by Billy-Ray Belcourt.The story is based on a personal experience of Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers. [5]Production of the film involved an indigenous youth mentorship program, funded through Telus Storyhive, which placed 11 young First Nations filmmakers within each department as mentees.
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 ...