Module Five Flashcards
How was Metis women’s gendered identity expressed?
- Artistic production
- Clothing
- Work
What is an example of women’s economy in the fur trade?
Sewing
Various indigenous women have experienced gendered aspects of colonization differently depending on what?
Time period
Location
Class
The department of Indian affairs responsible for land claims was responsible for negotiating and implementing what three key policies?
Specific land claims
Comprehensive land claims
Self government agreements
Why was the department of Indian affairs set up?
It had to support the Indian act
What do newer treaties fall under?
Comprehensive claims
What was the first comprehensive land claims agreement in northern Canada?
James Bay and northern Quebec agreement of 1975
What was the importance of women’s sewing in the fur trade and beyond?
Clothing was in demand
Coats suited harsh climate
Women were employed on posts
Dressing in the fashion of the country
Who influenced many cree women to adopt the Metis style of beadwork?
Melanie Blondeau
What is gender?
The cultural, spiritual, historical, and day to day practice of masculinity and femininity
What is the definition of patriarchy?
A system where males are privileged over females
What is the definition of sexuality?
Personal and interpersonal expression of those socially constructed qualities, desires, roles, and identities, which have come to do with sexual behaviour or activity.
What does profligacy mean?
Carrying on in an immoral manner
What is abuse?
One person trying to control and have power over another. It can be emotionally, financially, psychologically, sexually, or physically
What is human trafficking ?
The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of people by means of threat or use of purposes including profiting monetarily, socially, or politically for sexual exploitation
What does SNWM stand for?
Saskatchewan’s native women’s movement
What does IRIW stand for?
Indian rights for Indian women
What does NWAC stand for?
Native women’s association of Canada
What is sexual exploitation?
Any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust, for sexual purposes
What do officials blame increases of Indigenous prostitution on?
Natural tendencies of aboriginal women
Where did a woman’s status come from?
Their father or husband
Why was the Indian act amended with bill c-31?
To remove the sexist provisions of Indian membership
What does aboriginal feminism draw attention to?
Issues of colonialism, sexism, and racism
How do you define indigenous feminism?
An analysis and practice of gender justice that takes women’s experiences of sexism and racism seriously and seeks to end violence against all people, especially women
What is indigenous feminism rooted in?
Decolonizing indigenous sovereignty movements and is a reaction against patriarchy and settler colonialism
Among indigenous women, evidence of sexism is reflected through what?
High rates of domestic violence, death and poor health
What do decolonization movements challenge?
Dominant myths and political, social. And economic practices that modern nation states engage in that erode self determinism
Intersectional analysis
Over the years, indigenous women have come to realize the multiple positions they occupy: economically, race, ability, sexual identity, and location
What were midwives noted for?
Role of ushering new life and caring for the mothers in the early post partum period
What was fasting?
Abstaining from food for spiritual purposes. Boys and girls during puberty began a period of fasting and prayer to prepare for their vision quest