Le rôle des femmes dans la gouvernance autochtone

• Published in: Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos
• Main Author: Lajoie, Andrée
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Mondes Américains 2015
• Subjects: gouvernance autochtone; discrimination féminine; pouvoir politique féminin; conseil de bande; chef de bande; indigenous governance; discrimination of women; women’s political power; band council; band chief; scipo; hisphilso; Conseil; Indian; First Nations; Premières Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.68508; http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/68508

Influenced by the discrimination against aboriginal women following the adoption of the Indian Act when the feminist movement was progressing everywhere in Occident, aboriginal women in Quebec started to mobilize on the political arena, in their communities and within «transversal» organisms, while...