Bands
…who are elected by band members typically every two years under election procedures defined by the Indian Act, or alternatively by custom election codes also authorized under the Indian Act….
Indian Status
…their own membership codes, and thereby determine who can participate in band politics and society, as well as who can access band resources such as band property. Bands, however, did…
Marginalization of Aboriginal women
…history, where these two types of relations intersect, and where they diverge. As non-Aboriginal settlers first arrived in what is now Canada, they brought with them their patriarchal social codes…
