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Article: "Assisting our own": urban migration, self-governance, and Native women's organizing in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1972-1989.
- Article from:
- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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In the 1960s, settlement patterns of First Nations peoples in Canada began to change dramatically. (1) In 1966, 80 percent of the Aboriginal population still lived on reserve, but by 1991, 49.5 percent of the Aboriginal population lived in towns and cities. (2) Migration patterns of women and men differed; 16.4 percent of status Indian women lived off-reserve in 1966, compared to 15.4 percent of status Indian men, a disparity that grew over time. Twenty years later, 32.8 percent of status Indian women lived off-reserve, and only 26.4 percent of status Indian men did. (3) While most scholars agree that Aboriginal people have been more likely to leave the reserve because ...