Essay On Indian Act

The Indian act has an especially damaging effect on women. This paragraph focuses on the effect of the Indian act on the Indian women. The majority of person who lost their status are women’s. The women lost their status because of Indian act. In the old Indian act there is a lot of discrimination between men and women that is why women lost her Indian status. For example, if a women married with a men who did not have Indian status in that case she lost her status; on the other hand, if a men marries to a non-Indian women he did not lose his status. The women face many difficulties to access their rights and services for themselves and their children. The Bill C-31 was passed in 1985, to help both the native and non-native women’s. Women also experienced difficulties when applying for status or band membership. A book published by Kathleen Jamieson’s on “Indian women and the laws in Canada: citizens minus in 1978” (Holmes, 1987, p. 5). This book focus public attention on the unequal laws for Indian women and Indian men (Holmes, 1987, p. 5). Sandra Lovelace is an Indian women who lost her status through marriage and took her case to United Nations Human Rights Committee (Holmes, 1987, p. 5). Bill C-47 ends the discrimination against Indian women and children (Holmes, …show more content…
Doran said that, Indian act allow the native people to compete and acquire on equal position with the Canadians (2). Robinson speak that there is a lot of money spent on natives but they did not administer it in a good way (2). Campin voice that there is a lot of racism present in the 1876 Indian act (2). On the other hand the 1982 Constitution Act promote the national unity (2). She also said that, “replacing the Indian act did not redress the errors but certainly compound them” (Russell, 2012,