Native women Flashcards

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traditional roles of aboriginal women

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Women made integral decisions about family, property rights, and education, matriarchial communities

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What is the Indian Act?

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Regulated status of aborignals, and relinquished women’s power

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what is bill c31

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1985, gave women status, no grandfather

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what was the goal of resential schools?

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assimilate, civilize, christianize

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5
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what is the sixties scoop

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Way for Canadian government to transition from aboriginals being wards of the federal government they were wards of the government
Aboriginal children taken from families 20,000 since the 1960s and put into Canadian families, families were non-aboriginal, those not adopted were institutionalized in foster care

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intersectionalities and aboriginals

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structural: policies governing care of kids
political: prison industrial complex, legal systems
representation: dirty drunk indian

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aboriginal women and violence

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5x more likely to die of violence, not sex workers still deserve to be found

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