Idle No More Summary

This Purpose of this article is to bring to the forefront what the movement Idle No More does, it created by four Aboriginal women to fight against the injustices placed upon not just Indigenous people but with a focus on Aboriginal women, who in such a community is responsible for the communities wellbeing. They argue that the establishing of Westerner ideals has caused Indigenous issues to be grouped together and not separate gender. Where in Aboriginal communities each person no matter their gender has a role to play to aid their community and their gender determines in which capacity they aid their community. It is from this that some of the push against the Westerner model comes from, for a community that has a worker system that creates

This movement is important because it brings into perspective the role women play in traditional Aboriginal communities. Whereas most current and past feminist movements have fought for women's rights they have done so fighting against Westerner ideals which since they were brought over have put women into positions of less or no power and commonly treated them as property. Well this feminist Indigenous movement also fights against Westerner ideals they do so from the perspective of what Aboriginal women's right were before Western Settlers came, where women were those who took care of their communities wellbeing, in this case, that means stepping into the political field in order to protect the rights that their ancestor fought for them to have and current laws are attempting to bypass and/or

Another limitation noticed throughout the work is constantly referencing to treaties such as the Indian Act, which well perhaps talked about often is rarely explained in detail and perhaps a summary of Acts and treaties that are mentioned would have given a good background for the article. As for the strengths in this article, the literature well complex still flows well and creates an enjoyable read, instead of being broken up and inconsistent which in most cases causes people to lose interest and stop reading. Another of the strengths is the use of reference to dates and Bills that were passed into law or attempted to be passed which would infringe on the rights granted by previous treaties, giving reference to actual attempts to do what it is the movement Idle No More - which is one of the centerpieces of the article – says the government is attempting gives more credibility to the article and the movement that the article is