WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Indian Register, Indian Act, Numbered Treaties

• School: Trent University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000Y
• Professor: Katharine Bausch

Document Summary

Since 1851, colonial legislation did not technically protect the rights of non-indigenous men married to status women. In practice, those women retained their rights on reserve. 1951, government of canada reformed the indian act, enacting compulsory enfranchisement of women ho marry out" meaning non-status men. Status men were able to share their status and community rights with non-indigenous spouses. Enfranchisement stripped women of their rights to live on reserve, inherit property, send their children to school on reserve, and be buried on reserve. 1951 reform also granted women the right to vote on reserve. A political philosophy attributed to john locke who stated in his second treatise of government [1689] all mankind being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. Liberalism favours the rights of the individual, free enterprise, private property, and equality under the law.