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First Nations/Metis Human Rights Law: The History of Native Women's Association of Canada's Position and Options for Future Action
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Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Description
Examines the nature of Aboriginal women's rights, focusing on the Canadian Charter of Rights, and the balance between individual and collective rights.
Identifies problems in areas of time taken for processing applications and returning decisions on their success or failure, increasing rates of denial of status, and falling rate of restorations for women who lost status as a result of marriage
Bill was designed to remove sex-based discrimination in the provisions of the Indian Act. Discusses implementation of the Bill and unresolved, ongoing issues such as second-generation cut-off and the implications for registered population, age and marital status-based distinctions, implementation in urban areas, and unknown and unstated parentage policy.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 1988, pp. 73-105
Description
How the Sechelt Indian Band of British Columbia, in 1984, became the first to develop its own constitution and to withdraw from the authority of the Indian Act.