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Indian women and the law in Canada : citizens minus
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

Creators
Jamieson, Kathleen
Description
"Documentation on the discrimination against native women in Canada, assembled with the assistance of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women."

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Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
Statement of Responsibility
Kathleen Jamieson.
Publication Information
[Ottawa] : Minister of Supply and Services
Physical Description
108 p. : ill., ports. 23 cm.
Notes
Study completed by the Advisory Council on the Status of Women.;"April 1978".
Contents
Chapter 1 The status of Indian women - moral dilemma or political expediency? -- Chapter 2 The Indian Act view of women -- Chapter 3 Changing attitudes to intermarriage -- Chapter 4 Experimental approaches, 1830 - 1847 -- Chapter 5 Acts for Indians, 1850 - 1867 -- Chapter 6 Better management, 1868 - 1869 -- Chapter 7 Homes and gardens, 1870 - 1874 -- Chapter 8 Indian Acts to the turn of the century -- Chapter 9 Hardening attitudes, 1900 - 1945 -- Chapter 10 Pangs of conscience - the Forties -- Chapter 11 The Indian Act of 1951 -- Chapter 12 The consequences of loss of status -- Chapter 13 The unjust Just Society -- Chapter 14 The case of Jeannette Lavell -- Chapter 15 The resolution of the problem?
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