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Much of Blondeau's work revolves around the misrepresentation of First Nations women in popular culture and media culture.She regularly works with positive and negative associations attached to the tropes of the Indian Princess and the Squaw, examining how post-colonial imagery impacts the reception of Aboriginal women in urban communities. [6]
Madeleine Isserkut Kringayak (ᐃᓯᑯ) (1928–1984), was a Canadian Inuk sculptor and jewelry artist. Her sculptures were carved primarily from natural materials such as soapstone (steatite), bone, and antler reflecting the hunting habits and daily life of her family and the Inuit at large.
Jaime Black (She/Them [1]) is a Canadian Red River Métis multidisciplinary artist and activist of Anishinaabe and Finnish descent. Jaime lives and works on her home territory near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.
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.
From 1975 to 1982 she was president of this association, aimed at giving Indigenous women the right to equality in the Canadian constitution. A 1951 amendment to Canada's Indian Act, known as section 12 (1) (b), stated that any Treaty woman who married a non-Treaty man would automatically give up her own legal Indian status; her children would ...
This is partly due to organizations that focus attention on the achievements and welfare of Indigenous Canadians like, Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Native Women's Association of Canada, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, National Aboriginal Health Organization, Metis Child and Family Services Society and Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
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The Native women's groups, Indian Rights for Indian Women and National Native Women's Association, had been involved in trying to right the inequity of provisions under the Indian Act that deprived First Nations women and their children from status by marriage to a non-Aboriginal. Men who married non-status women did not suffer the same loss of ...