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Indian Rights for Indian Women (IRIW) was a grassroots activist collective, formed in 1967, that advocated against the gender discrimination in the Indian Act. The group's primary goal was to eradicate Section 12, paragraph 1(b) of the Indian Act, which removed the Indian status of Indigenous women who married non-Indigenous men, and prohibited them from passing status onto their children. Among others, the group was founded by Mary Two-Axe Earley, Kathleen Steinhauer and Nellie Carlson. IRIW used the voices of many Indigenous women who had lost their status across Canada to protest and stand up to the government. Due to their activism, Bill C-31, an amendment to the Indian Act, was implemented in 1985. Bill C-31 protected the status of Indian women and brought the Indian Act in line with

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rdfs:comment	Indian Rights for Indian Women (IRIW) was a grassroots activist collective, formed in 1967, that advocated against the gender discrimination in the Indian Act. The group's primary goal was to eradicate Section 12, paragraph 1(b) of the Indian Act, which removed the Indian status of Indigenous women who married non-Indigenous men, and prohibited them from passing status onto their children. Among others, the group was founded by Mary Two-Axe Earley, Kathleen Steinhauer and Nellie Carlson. IRIW used the voices of many Indigenous women who had lost their status across Canada to protest and stand up to the government. Due to their activism, Bill C-31, an amendment to the Indian Act, was implemented in 1985. Bill C-31 protected the status of Indian women and brought the Indian Act in line with (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Royal Commission on the Status of Women Paternalism Indian Register Mary Two-Axe Earley Saddle Lake Cree Nation Matrilineality 1969 White Paper An Act to amend the Criminal Code (trafficking in persons) Gradual Civilization Act Gradual Enfranchisement Act Jeannette Corbiere Lavell Assembly of First Nations Canadian human rights activists Indian Act Women's liberation movement Indian band Indian reservations in Canada
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author	Kathleen Steinhauer (en)
source	pg. 60 (en)
text	Then one day Marie rang up and said: "Call your women together. I'm coming to Edmonton." So I called Nellie and Nellie phoned Jenny Margetts and Myrtle Calahasen. We met here, and sat around this table. Gordon Margetts, Jenny's husband, was here. Some guys came here to listen. Marie was very supportive. She got us started. "This is what you must do," she said. She wrote it all down for us, the legal resolutions, all of it. And we were off. (en)
title	describing an early meeting (en)
has abstract	Indian Rights for Indian Women (IRIW) was a grassroots activist collective, formed in 1967, that advocated against the gender discrimination in the Indian Act. The group's primary goal was to eradicate Section 12, paragraph 1(b) of the Indian Act, which removed the Indian status of Indigenous women who married non-Indigenous men, and prohibited them from passing status onto their children. Among others, the group was founded by Mary Two-Axe Earley, Kathleen Steinhauer and Nellie Carlson. IRIW used the voices of many Indigenous women who had lost their status across Canada to protest and stand up to the government. Due to their activism, Bill C-31, an amendment to the Indian Act, was implemented in 1985. Bill C-31 protected the status of Indian women and brought the Indian Act in line with the increasing gender equality of the time. (en)
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