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5 K. Williams, "An Assessment of Historiographical Writings on First Nations Women in
Canada", University of Ottawa, 16 December 1992, p. 1. This paper provides historical
information on the position and role from a number of nations, including the Huron,
Montagnais-Naskapi, Iroquois, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Nootka, Chipewyan, Mi'kmaq and
Carrier.
6 Alison Prentice et al., eds., "The First Women", in Canadian Women: A History
(Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), p. 32.
7 Osennontion and Skonaganleh:rá, "Our World", Canadian Woman Studies, 10/2 and 3
(Summer/Fall 1989), pp. 12-14.
8 Winona Stevenson, "Aboriginal Women's Studies: The State of the Field and a Call for
Research", research study prepared for RCAP (1992).
9 The exception here is the Labrador Inuit who were converted to Christianity by the
Moravian missionaries beginning in 1771. As early as 1791, converted Inuit had to
promise to send their children to school. Inuit were educated in Inuktitut under the
direction of the Moravian missionaries until the province of Newfoundland took over the
education system in 1949. See Tim Borlase, Labrador Studies: The Labrador Inuit
(Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador: Labrador East Integrated
School Board, 1993), p. 203.
10 Pauktuutit, Arnait: The Views of Inuit Women on Contemporary Issues (Ottawa:
Pauktuutit, 1991), p. 6.
11 Nancy Wachowich et al., "Unikaavut: Our Lives, Stories from the Lives of Three
Generations of North Baffin Inuit Women", research study prepared for RCAP (1994).
12 Janet Mancini Billson, "Violence Toward Women and Children", in Gossip: A Spoken
History of Women in the North, ed. Mary Crnkovich (Ottawa: Canadian Arctic
Resources Committee, 1990), p. 152.
13 Russel Lawrence Barsh and James Youngblood Henderson, The Road: Indian Tribes
and Political Liberty (Berkley: University of California Press, 1980), p. vii.
14 Ovide Mercredi and Mary Ellen Turpel, In The Rapids: Navigating the Future of First
Nations (Toronto: Viking, 1993), pp. 88-89.
15 S. Prov. C. 1850, c. 42., s. 5:
And for the purpose of determining any right of property, possession or occupation in or
to any lands---the following classes of persons are and shall be considered as Indians---.
First — All persons of Indian blood reputed to belong to the particular Body or Tribe of
Indians interested in such lands, and their descendants:
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