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Apr 6, 2022 · Our study explored (1) how do Indigenous women who are living in three prairie cities (Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and Regina) define and understand reproductive justice and reproductive sovereignty? (2) How do urban Indigenous women claim and exercise their rights to reproductive justice?
- Contemporary Indigenous Women’s Roles: Traditional Teachings ...
From the beginning of European contact, colonial policy and...
- Contemporary Indigenous Women’s Roles: Traditional Teachings ...
Colonial power and the capitalist economic system that came with it have had a huge impact on Indigenous women’s lives. In pre-colonial times, Indigenous men and women often had diferent, but valuable roles in their societies. In European culture, men were seen as superior to women.
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Dec 17, 2019 · From the beginning of European contact, colonial policy and legislation were direct forms of violence toward Indigenous women. The Jesuit priests and settlers observed the power that Indigenous women experienced in their families, marriages, politics, decision-making, and ceremonial life.
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Indigenous women marches, LGBTQIA+ struggles for rights, communitarian feminist contestations, and the empowerment of black movements are important forces in this scenario.
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The dominant European narrative of North American history for centuries paid little attention to women’s presence, much less their roles and experiences. Merchants and military leaders from Europe operated within gendered spaces in which women’s roles were very limited; they were wearing those blinkers when they came to North America and, as a cons...
Indigenous communities involved with the fur trade sought and exploited many opportunities to confirm commercial and diplomatic relationships with Euro-Canadians. This was the case when the delegation of Algonquin and Wendat — led by Iroquet and Outchetaguin — visited the French habitationon the St. Lawrence in 1609 with an eye to building a tradin...
The 1876 Indian Act did much to formally strip Indigenous women of their rights and roles. A document conceived and enforced by a patriarchal settler society, one of its goals was to impose and inculcate among Indigenous peoples the values of male land ownership, primogeniture, patrilineality, patrilocality, and female deference. Under the Act,wome...
A great many of the life studies arising from Indigenous communities in the last twenty years have focused on women. These are, as well, works that are marked by collaborative practices in which the role of the scholarly historian is secondary to that of the knowledge-keeper. Many of these studies are rich with the details of life, rather than the ...
As a political organization, the Indian Homemakers’ Associations provide us with a segueinto the next chapter. Women historically and consistently played leading roles in Indigenous communities’ efforts to thrive and to confront colonialism. The twentieth century would see experimentation with a wide variety of tactics and organizations whose aim w...
The following resources may supplement your understanding of the topics addressed in this chapter: Anderson, Karen. Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Seventeenth-Century New France. London & New York: Routledge: 1991. Bailey, Norma, dir. Women in the Shadows.1991. Montreal: National Film Board. https://www.nfb.ca/film/women_...
Jun 22, 2022 · Indigenous women and girls face grave, systematic, and continuous acts of violence that permeate every aspect of their lives, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said on Wednesday in a...
Oct 23, 2014 · Throughout colonization, the centrality and authority experienced by indigenous women has been impaired by clashing beliefs and practices. Despite experiencing historical oppression, these women have continuously resisted colonial subjugation and have demonstrated resilience in response to adversity.
