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6/8/2014 2 Comments The Dark Stain on Canada lthough I have been working on this matter for over twenty-seven years, Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto filed my statement of claim regarding the continued sex discrimination in the Indian status registration provisions of the Indian Act in June 2001. As of June 2014 thirteen years have passed and my case is yet to be heard in court. While of course my thoughts on this matter have shifted over time, without Indian status I am denied First Nation band membership, denied my treaty rights, denied citizenship in the larger Anishinaabek Nation, and my vote − had I remained involved − in the Algonquin land claims and self-government process in Ontario carries less weight because status band members have more representatives sitting at the negotiation table and best thought of as the "termination" table. The intersection of Indian status registration, sex discrimination, treaty rights, citizenship, and the land claims and self-government process remains bundled. I continue my section 15 Charter challenge as many mothers and babies are being denied who they are, and thus their treaty rights, through AANDC's sexist assumption that all cases where a father's signature is not ascribed to a child's birth certificate are non-Indian. This assumption remains in place in situations of incest, rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution. This practice of Canada terminating their treaty responsibilities through this assumption is an abomination and is a dark stain on Canada’s reputation. Please like and share this blog.  Lynn Gehl is an Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe from the Ottawa River Valley. She has a section 15 Charter challenge regarding the continued sex discrimination in The Indian Act, and is an outspoken critic of the Ontario Algonquin land claims and self-government process. She has three books: Anishinaabeg Stories: Featuring Petroglyphs, Petrographs, and Wampum Belts, The Truth that Wampum Tells: My Debwewin of the Algonquin Land Claims Process, and Mkadengwe: Sharing Canada's Colonial Process through Black Face Methodology. You can reach her at lynngehl@gmail.com and see more of her work at www.lynngehl.com.
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6/8/2014 07:14:05 am
Dear Lynn, it may not seem possible but I know what you're experiencing to a degree. I'm Métis my family originally from Yamachiche , Quebec . I have a cousin Claude Hubert who's been representing 360 families live in Little Canada St. Anne's mission. My particular lineage migrated to USA at the the time of the American Industrial Revolution for more than one reason it turns out that the earliest recorded ancestor of mine was "Nicolas Milette" listed as an "Enclave" which means he was s slave. Also over time and White settlement I now have 5 Alhonquin Clans in my linage and yet I'm considered non status. I'my 60s and have been an active member of Boston's NAICOB , population since the 1970s. I visited my cousin Claude in Yamachiche In 2010, and he gave me a tour of little Yamachiche and my ancestors history in the area . But I believe discrimination on any level is unexceptable . I feel where you're coming from. Living in Boston MA, I've seen many nonstatus babies born to White or non status mothers and to me this raises another kind of discrimination . If you have any questions regarding this issue, feel free to contact me . Migweetch ! DMS
Bob Mather
6/8/2014 11:35:21 pm
hang in there lynn this racism and sexism have been going on for a long time the world is changing the world is evolving.It is sad that these so called leaders are so far behind Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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