SOSC 3543 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Idle No More, Indigenous Feminism, Indian Act
10 Apr 2019
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This week"s reading was penned by sonja john, "idle no more-indigenous activism and. Sonja clarifies that indigenous women face the most discrimination due to being women in a feminism. Theory in action , the author looks deeply and closely on the bills c-45 and c-31 proposed and passed in canada in 2012. These bills were omnibus budget bills, that would influence economic condition and clean water resources for the canadian population as well as first. The decrease of the arrangement between the canadian government and first nations, which would reduce ascendancy and the rights related to land was caused mainly due to the indian. At the point where the bills were speculated to be ordinated in. 2012, four saskatchewan women began a challenge against the implementation of the omnibus bills. The opposition against the bills was primarily led by indigenous women. A mass protest was made, called "idle no more".
