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- Title: Contesting Patriarchy: Granddaughters Fight Back (Report)
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 327 KB
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Abstract This paper argues that colonial policies discriminating against Native women, as well as defining and circumscribing Native rights and identity, continue to cast a long shadow over the cultural and socio-economic landscape on First Nations Reserves in Canada. The study historicizes the emergence of these discriminatory practices on the Six Nations Reserve, entailing the transformation of Native social organization from a matriarchy to a reification of patriarchy, subordinating Six Nations women and denying them their human rights, if they chose to marry non-Natives. Banished from their homes and families, constrained from participating in Six Nations culture, women continue to suffer under this yoke of oppression that has been naturalized through the hegemony of internal colonialism and meted out according to Canadian statutory law, codified in the Indian Act. The narrative describes several signal cases that posed legal challenges to discrimination, the intervention of the United Nations to protect Native women's cultural autonomy, as well as the internal Canadian political struggle over reform, women's rights and the movement for Native self-government. As Native women continue to struggle against the patriarchal mentality and colonization of consciousness evidenced by their leaders, First Nations communities are attempting to determine their own codes of citizenship, define their own cultural identities and design new indigenous institutions to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, to ensure the continuation of our Native cultures.