WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Patrilineality, Squaw
24 Mar 2018
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Most countries are european and they invade, take over and insist on their own politics, culture and society in another country. How people live their lives depend on many variable. Indigenous people treated women differently than european people. Stereotypes were created to ll a political need. Early voyageurs and the importance of intermarriage (create an alliance) Insistence on european political and negotiating styles, partially to negate indigenous. Indian act - de nes indian status in a patrilineal way. If an indian women status women marries a non status man she loses her status. If a non status women married an indian man, she gains status. With the loss of status was also the loss of band membership, property, inheritance, medical and education. The women become the mans property when she marries (european ideology pushed upon) Bill c-31 amend the indian act, fnmi women regain their status. Many women fought to have this happen, bear chapter, tobique women group.
