With posts on the arguments for and against Bill C-3 now up on our site, it only seems fitting that we conduct a poll to hear what you think. Admittedly, these options are a bit reductive, especially given the confusing legal labyrinth that make up Status inheritance laws, but we thought we’d test the waters — […]
The folks over at ‘Crazy Bitches R Us’ are taking the view that, despite Sharon McIvor and others’ criticisms of it, Bill C-3 (a bill essentially proposing changes to the Indian Act that would remove some, but not all, of the sexist impediments to passing Indian Status on to one’s children) is better than the […]
Picking up where Part One left off, this piece is the second in a two-part response to Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard’s Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation. It originally appeared in somewhat different forms in guest editorial/commentaries for Kanata (Vol. 1) and the Winter 2009 (#203) issue of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and […]
The Native Women’s Association of Canada has released an open letter to MPs from Sharon McIvor opposing Bill C-3 (aka, the “Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act”): According to the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Bill C-3 will make about 45,000 people newly eligible for registration as Indians. But Bill […]
It’s official: the Tohono O’odham Nation are now publicly and formally coming out against Arizona’s new immigration law, partially answering my recent question about what Indigenous people of the area make of all the controversy surrounding the soon-to-be enacted law: The [Nation] … strongly opposes enactment of Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070. The law […]
