Indian Act

First Nation Women's Suffrage

Summary

According to the Indian Act, First Nations women could neither vote nor be elected to band counsels until the Act was amended in 1951. The vote for First Nations women came roughly 33 years after suffrage was granted to white settler women within Canada in all provinces exempting Quebec (1940).


 

Result

First Nations women were removed from the political sphere within their own communities, and were stripped of the political and leadership status they held within their communities prior to the introduction of this laws. As such, the Canadian Government continued their colonial occupation by systemically removing First Nation women's political authority, sovereignty, and decision-making power.  


 

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Date
1876-00-00
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