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Keepers of the fire

Aboriginal women let their hearts speak. They are the "warrior women" who have been on the front lines of the most important struggles aboriginal people in Canada have faced in the latter part of the 20th century, including the Oka crisis, the Haida blockade in 1985, etc.

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  • "Mohawk and Haida, Maliseet and Ojibwe these are the voices of "warrior women"--those who have been on the front lines of some of the most important struggles aboriginal people have faced in the latter part of the 20th century. During the Oka crisis of 1990, it was the Mohawk women of Kahnawake and Kanehsatake who carried that burden. The Haida made their stand in 1985 when they blockaded logging roads on Lyell Island. The Maliseet women compelled the Canadian Parliament to pass Bill C-31, an historic piece of legislation which removed sexual discrimination from the Indian Act. This same courage drives the women of Anduhyaun, a Toronto Native women's shelter and refuge for women escaping domestic violence."
  • "In this video, aboriginal women let their hearts speak. Mohawk and Haida, Maliseet and Ojibwe, these are the voices of "warrior women" - those who have been on the front lines of some of the most important struggles aboriginal people in Canada have faced in the latter part of the 20th century."
  • "Aboriginal women let their hearts speak. They are the "warrior women" who have been on the front lines of the most important struggles aboriginal people in Canada have faced in the latter part of the 20th century, including the Oka crisis, the Haida blockade in 1985, etc."@en
  • "An aboriginal proverb says that no people is broken until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Presents the stories of aboriginal women who have participated in important aboriginal struggles in Canada. Mohawk women tell of their role in the 1990 crisis at Oka. Haida women reminisce about their stand on the picket lines and their arrests in the action that stopped logging on Lyell Island in the Queen Charlottes. Maliseet women recall their campaign, lasting eight years, that changed the Indian Act to accord status and rights to all Indian women. Native women in Toronto who run a native women's shelter speak of their roles and what they have learned helping urban native women."@en
  • "Profiles the work of warrior women, the keepers of the fire, by examining the role of women in First Nations societies. Documents Native American women's work in keeping the spirit and substance of their cultures alive."@en
  • "Aboriginal women let their hearts speak. Mohawk and Haida, Maliseet and Ojibwe, these are the voices of "warrrior women"-- those who have been on the front lines of some of the most important struggles aboriginal people in Canada have faced in the latter part of the 20th century. Storytellers, dreamers, healers and fighters, they are just some of the women who are keeping the fires of hope and determination burning in aboriginal communitieright across this land. With dignity and courage, these women speak their truth. And as long as they speak, the fire will burn."

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  • "Keepers of the fire"
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