“We’re the only group in Canada that has got legislated discrimination still active, alive and well,” said McIvor. Photograph: Shelagh DayMcIvor was not entitled to indigenous status because she had married a non-indigenous man. Without status, McIvor wasn’t able to live on reserve land and was excluded from hunting, gathering and fishing as well as traditional marriage, funeral and healing ceremonies. Several United Nations bodies have drawn a direct line between sexual discrimination in the Indian Act and Canada’s crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women. Unsolved murders of indigenous women reflect Canada's history of silence Read moreThe push for change comes amid a wider conversation on replacing the Indian Act with the indigenous self-government and self-determination.

Source: The Guardian April 19, 2018 11:15 UTC