Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: Native Women's Activism Against Social Inequality and Violence in Canada
Author's Introduction, Page 259-260:
"Native women's struggles against social inequality and Contemporary violence and for Native sovereignty and self-determination are mired in histories of sexist ideologies and practices. While these struggles and histories did not begin in the nineteenth century (sexism certainly existed before then), they were fortified in powerful ways by the Indian Act of 1868. The act consolidated under Canadian Parliament authority all previous colonial legislation addressing the status and rights of Native people in Canada.