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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"For 34 years, Lynn Gehl fought against the sex discrimination built into Canada's Indian Act. This is the story of her challenges and eventual success. A follow-up to her successful Claiming Anishinaabe, Lynn Gehl's latest book, Gehl v Canada, is the documentation of her 34-year fight to change Canada's Indian Act regarding unknown and unstated paternity, a harmful colonial legacy that has adversely affected generations of Indigenous women. It is also the celebration of Gehl's tenacious, brave advocacy for Indigenous women and children in the face of colonial oppression. The paternity policy of the Indian Act required individuals claiming Status to demonstrate the lineage of both parents. Harmful to Indigenous mothers and children, and imposing a high evidentiary burden on Indigenous people claiming Status, it was overturned on April 20, 2017, in what is now known as the Gehl decision. Using Indigenous methods of first-person experience, embodied knowledge, emotional knowledge, observation, reading, writing, role-modelling, learning by doing, repetition, introspection, and storytelling, Gehl shares the journey to her court victory. Praise for Gehl v Canada "The first, full-length first-person account of a leading case about discrimination against women in the Indian Act of Canada."--Mary Eberts, author of The Case for Women's Equality "[It] is remarkable and a monument in Indigenous struggles with the colonial Crown." --Veldon Coburn, Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies at University of Ottawa"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Intro -- Figures and Tables -- Dedication -- Foreword by Mary Eberts -- Preface: Indigenous Ways of Knowing -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Part I. On Identity Matters -- 1. Fighting for Recognition -- 2. The Personal Implications of the Discrimination in the Indian Act -- 3. Long Live the "Algonquin Frauds" -- 4. "Love to Me Is the Kids" -- 5. Disenfranchised Spirit -- Part II. Some Community Writing -- 6. Women Protest Bill C-31 Threat to Erase Indians -- 7. Great Gathering against Bill C-3 -- 8. Indian Act Still Discriminating -- 9. The Indian Act's Legislative Silence |
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10. Canada's Court System -- Part III. On Cultural Genocide -- 11. Canada's Unstated Paternity Policy Amounts to Genocide against Indigenous Children -- 12. Canada Is Carrying Out Cultural Genocide with a Smile -- Part IV. Some Academic Works -- 13. "The Queen and I" -- 14. Unknown and Unstated Paternity and the Indian Act -- 15. Protecting Indian Rights for Indian Babies -- 16. Ontario's History of Tampering and Re-Tampering with Birth Registration Documents -- Part V. A Talk, a Testimonial, and a Submission -- 17. Law Society of Upper Canada Talk -- 18. House of Commons Committee Testimony |
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19. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Submission -- Part VI. Bill S-3 -- 20. Understanding "6(1)a All the Way!" -- 21. Carolyn Bennett's "2 Million" New Indians -- 22. Valuing Discourse -- Part VII. Dishonouring Wenonah's Jurisdiction -- 23. My Last Chapter -- Part VIII. Some Final Thoughts -- 24. Defeating the Wiindigo -- 25. I Danced and I Danced -- My Heart Was Full -- Afterword: Morals before Knowledge -- Appendix: Timeline of Gehl v Canada -- Anishinaabemowin Words and Meanings -- Bibliography -- Notes |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Gehl, Lynn, 1962-
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Canada. Indian Act.
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Indian Act (Canada) |
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Indigenous women -- Canada -- Social conditions.
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Indigenous women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
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Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
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Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Ethnic identity.
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Canada.
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Indigenous peoples -- Ethnic identity |
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Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation |
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Canada https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkMHVW4rfVXPrhVP4VwG3 |
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Autobiography
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Autobiographies.
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Gehl vs. Canada |
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Print version: Gehl, Lynn, 1962- Gehl v Canada. Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2021 0889778256 9780889778252 (OCoLC)1241730484 |
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0889778272 electronic book |
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9780889778283 electronic book |
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0889778280 electronic book |
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9780889778276 (electronic bk.) |
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