Recommendation 106

Recommendation 106:

Treatment of Indigenous women

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Recommendation 106: Treatment of Indigenous women

The commission recommends that an Indigenous woman be allowed to keep her legal Indian status if she marries a person without Indian status. It also recommends that she be allowed to pass this status down to her children.

Recommendation 106: Treatment of Indigenous women

After a decades-long campaign helmed by activist Mary Two-Axe Earley, Bill C-31 allows women who had lost their Indian status due to marriage to apply for full restoration of their rights and status. It also gives their children the right to apply for the same.

Recommendation 106: Treatment of Indigenous women

Prime Minister Stephen Harper issues a public apology at the behest of the Government of Canada to Aboriginal Peoples. He acknowledges Canada’s role in the residential school system, that saw generations of children forcibly removed from their families and cultures.

Recommendation 106: Treatment of Indigenous women

The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls releases a 1,200-page report that finds that Indigenous girls and women are twelve times more likely to go missing or be murdered than any other demographic in the country.