WMST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Native Friendship Centre, Chrystos, Political Philosophy
11 Apr 2017
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Political space: courts, community, art, music - fawn wood, tanya taqaq, parliament - legislative reform, home - domestic labour can be subversive, barricades - oka, fracking. Key terms and people: indigenous, first nations, metis, inuit, and indian, indian act, colonization, enfranchisement, neo(liberalism, band membership and indian status, bill c-31, mary two-axe earley, nellie carlson, jenny margetts. Indian act reform: 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 who marry out meaning non-status men. Enfranchisement legislation often re- sulted in community alienation: 1951 reform also granted women to the right to vote on reserve. Treaties and the indian act: nation to nation treaties, colonization and opening the west, canadian confederation, 1867, numbered treaties, the indian act, 1876. Many in her community freed with section 12 (1)(b) of.
