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Assistant Professor in Aboriginal and Indigenous Law, Dalhousie University

Legal principles of coverture written into the Indian Act continue to negatively impact the rights of Indigenous women. (Shutterstock)

December 8, 2022

Disenfranchising Indigenous women: The legacy of coverture in Canada

Cheryl Simon, Dalhousie University

Few Canadians know about the doctrine of coverture and how it stripped Indigenous women of their agency.

Grey Owl was an original ‘pretendian,’ portraying himself as the the son of a Scottish man and Apache woman after moving to Canada in the early 1900s. (Canadian National Railways/Library and Archives Canada, e010861684)

November 22, 2021

Fraudulent claims of indigeneity: Indigenous nations are the identity experts

Cheryl Simon, Dalhousie University

Those quick to call-out are often not clamouring for Indigenous nations’ jurisdiction over citizenship, nor are they demanding “pretendians” be held accountable to Indigenous nations.

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