Key Terms
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Indian Rights for Indian Women — Kathleen Steinhauer
Indian Act
Canadian legislation governing the legal status and rights of First Nations people; basis for enfranchisement and member
Enfranchisement
In this context — the process of granting Canadian citizenship to Indigenous people, simultaneously stripping them of tr
Enfranchised Indian
An Indigenous person who lost treaty-recognized status and rights; could vote federally before 1960 but lost reserve rig
Non-status Indian
An Indigenous person not registered as a member of an official Indian band; has no legally recognized treaty rights unde
Indian band
A legally recognized community under the Indian Act; membership determines access to reserve land, property inheritance,
Treaty rights
Rights formally recognized through treaties between Indigenous nations and the Canadian Crown; include housing, health,
Residential school
State and church-run schools that forcibly enrolled Indigenous children, suppressed Indigenous language and culture, and
First Nations
Post-1985 term for Indigenous peoples previously recognized as Indians under the Indian Act and treaty.
Metis
Either (1) members of the Metis Nation with roots in the Red River region of Manitoba, or (2) broadly, people of mixed E
Inuit
One of the three recognized Aboriginal groups in Canada post-1985; distinct from First Nations and Metis.
Idle No More
Women-founded Indigenous rights movement arising in 2012; protested federal environmental policy and disregard for Indig
Assembly of First Nations
National Indigenous political organization; formerly the National Indian Brotherhood.
National Indian Brotherhood
Earlier name for what became the Assembly of First Nations; opposed IRIW during the 1960s-1980s campaign.
Saddle Lake Cree Nation
Cree First Nations reserve in eastern Alberta; Kathleen's birth community and the band she was eventually reinstated to