Native women Flashcards
traditional roles of aboriginal women
Women made integral decisions about family, property rights, and education, matriarchial communities
What is the Indian Act?
Regulated status of aborignals, and relinquished women’s power
what is bill c31
1985, gave women status, no grandfather
what was the goal of resential schools?
assimilate, civilize, christianize
what is the sixties scoop
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
intersectionalities and aboriginals
structural: policies governing care of kids
political: prison industrial complex, legal systems
representation: dirty drunk indian
aboriginal women and violence
5x more likely to die of violence, not sex workers still deserve to be found