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On June 28, 1985, the Canadian Parliament passed Bill C-31 to amend the Indian Act, eliminating the Act's original gender discrimination and creating a new process of reinstatement for affected First Nations women to have their Indian status restored. Two-Axe Earley became the first woman to have her status restored, and thousands of other ...
Indian Rights for Indian Women (IRIW) was a grassroots activist collective in Canada, formed in 1967, that advocated against the gender discrimination in the Indian Act. [1] 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 ...
The Indian Act (French: Loi sur les Indiens) is a Canadian Act of Parliament that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves. [3] [4] [a] First passed in 1876 and still in force with amendments, it is the primary document that defines how the Government of Canada interacts with the 614 First Nation bands in Canada and their members.
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
The implementation of the Women's Reservation Bill, also known as the Constitution 108th Amendment Bill of 2008, is imperative for contemporary Indian society. [9] This legislation has encountered six unsuccessful attempts to get cleared since its initial introduction in 1996.
As settler colonialism is an ongoing effort, these systems have remained in place and continue to perpetrate harm today as seen through generational trauma related to the residential school system, MMIW, and the Indian Act. Indigenous scholars emphasize the need for community healing and traditional practices to heal the collective traumas, and ...
Sarojini Naidu was the first Indian woman to lead the Indian National Congress in 1925–1926. Nellie Sengupta (1933), Indira Gandhi (1959,1978–83) and Sonia Gandhi (1998-2017,2019–2022) were the other women presidents of Indian National Congress.
The Indian Act, however, which is a law made by the Parliament of Canada for Indians, prescribes a different result with respect to the rights of an Indian woman who marries a person other than an Indian, or an Indian of another band, from that which is to obtain when a male Indian marries a person other than an Indian, or an Indian who is a ...