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Gehl v Canada

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  • Gehl versus Canada
  • Gehl vs. Canada

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"For 34 years, Lynn Gehl fought against the sex discrimination built into Canada's Indian Act. This is the story of her challenges and eventual success. A follow-up to her successful Claiming Anishinaabe, Lynn Gehl's latest book, Gehl v Canada, is the documentation of her 34-year fight to change Canada's Indian Act regarding unknown and unstated paternity, a harmful colonial legacy that has adversely affected generations of Indigenous women. It is also the celebration of Gehl's 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 and children, and imposing a high evidentiary burden on Indigenous people claiming Status, it was overturned on April 20, 2017, in what is now known as the Gehl decision. Using Indigenous methods of first-person experience, embodied knowledge, emotional knowledge, observation, reading, writing, role-modelling, learning by doing, repetition, introspection, and storytelling, Gehl shares the journey to her court victory."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part One: On Identity Matters -- Fighting for Recognition -- Personal Implications of the Discrimination in the Indian Act -- Long Live the "Algonquin Frauds" -- "Love to Me Is the Kids" -- Disenfranchised Spirit: A Theory and a Model -- Part Two: Some Community Writing -- Women Protest Bill C-31 Threat to Erase Indians -- Great Gathering against Bill C-3 -- Indian Act Still Discriminating -- Indian Act's Legislative Silence -- Canada's Court System: A Hostile Place for Indigenous Peoples -- Part Three: On Cultural Genocide -- Canada's Unstated Paternity Policy Amounts to Genocide against Indigenous Children -- Canada is Carrying Out Cultural Genocide with a Smile -- Part Four: Some Academic Works -- "Queen and I": Discrimination against Women in the Indian Act Continues -- Unknown and Unstated Paternity and the Indian Act: Enough is Enough! -- Protecting Indian Rights or Indian Babies: Canada's Unstated Paternity and the Indian Act: Enough is Enough! -- Protecting Indian Rights for Indian Babies: Canada's "Unstated Paternity" Policy -- Ontario's History of Tampering and Re-Tampering with Birth Registration Documents -- Part Five: Talk, a Testimonial, and a Submission -- Law Society of Upper Canada Talk -- House of Commons Committee Testimony -- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Submission -- Part Six: Bill 2-3 -- Understanding "6(1) a All the Way!" -- Carolyn Bennet's "Two Million" New Indians -- Valuing Discourse: Senators Discuss Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's "Unstated Paternity" Policy -- Part Seven: Dishonouring Wenonah's Jurisdiction -- My Last Chapter: I Am Only a Woman -- Part Eight: Some Final Thoughts -- Defeating the Windigo -- I Danced and I Danced; My Heart Was Full -- Afterword: Morals before Knowledge.

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Gehl, Lynn, 1962-. Gehl v Canada

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:16:52.014803+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23384680

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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