INDIGST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Squaw, Calinda, January 30

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1AA3
• Professor: All

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Lecture 5: indigenous women, missing and murdered indigenous women. (cid:449)hy (cid:449)ould she p(cid:396)ostitute he(cid:396)self if the t(cid:396)eat(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts had been fulfilled. Indigenous women in pre-contact: (cid:862)i(cid:374) ou(cid:396) (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ity, the (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:449)as defi(cid:374)ed as (cid:374)ou(cid:396)ishe(cid:396), a(cid:374)d the (cid:373)a(cid:374), p(cid:396)ote(cid:272)to(cid:396), a(cid:374)d as protector, he had the role of helper. She was responsible for the establishment of all of the norms whether they were political, economic, so(cid:272)ial, o(cid:396) spi(cid:396)itual (cid:863) sylvia maracle: economic marriages between european traders and indigenous women. Women in society: victorian era, public domain men, law and labour, private domain women, child rearing and taking care of home. Socio-economic disparities and indigenous women: over 40% of indigenous women live in poverty. In 2001, the highest rates of unemployment (22%) were experienced by aboriginal women living on reserve. In 2005, the average income of indigenous women was 27. 7% less than indigenous men.