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INDIAN RIGHTS FOR INDIAN WOMEN

Photo: Hidden Story Productions

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Shivani was a Producer on "Indian Rights for Indian Women", an award-winning documentary short created for the Royal Alberta Museum's Human History wing.

This film won the Audience Favourite for Documentary Short and Alberta Short at the 2018 Calgary International Film Festival.

Pictured: Leona Shirt, Sister of Jenny Margetts

Treaty status was stripped from women because they married non-status men. In the 1970s, three fierce young women who helped form the Alberta branch of Indian Rights for Indian Women start a grassroots battle to regain rights for themselves and generations of Indigenous women.

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