Recenze GEHL V CANADA

Challenging Sex Discrimination in the Indian Act. A follow-up to her successful Claiming Anishinaabe, Lynn Gehls latest book, Gehl v Canada, is the documentation of the her 34-year fight to change Canadas Indian Act policies regarding unknown and unstated paternity, a harmful, colonial legacy that has adversely affected generations of Indigenous women. It is also the celebration of Gehls tenacious, brave advocacy for Indigenous women and children in the face of colonial oppression. The paternity policy of the Indian Act required individuals claiming Status to demonstrate the lineage of both parents. Harmful to Indigenous mothers