The Curious Case of Feminism

This week we had presentations on the indigenous feminism textbook. We presented on chapter 10, “a Spare Thought for Metis Women Elderhood”. I found this chapter very interesting as she used storytelling to show the issues among metis elders. I specifically was passionate about the lack of rights these elders grew up with, therefore leading to poverty and other social issues. In our brief research, my partner and I discovered that metis people only obtained indigenous rights in 2003. This means that most of the metis elders have gone most their lives without proper rights. This has had an obvious effect on the population of metis elders. According to our chapter, women metis elders have even more difficulties then male elders. When we take in account intersectionality, it makes sense that these groups have many issues in common but also separate struggles.              One main difference is the gender roles growing up. In Angelica’s story, she remembers that her