Canada's Indian Act has been in effect since 1876 - that's 147 years. The world has changed several times over since then (Archduke Franz Ferdinand was just a lad in 1876), and yet the gender-based inequality provisions of this Act, dating back to 1869, were only corrected by new legislation 150 years later (2019), and only then after a Quebec Superior Court decision. Clearly, the Indian Act has negatively impacted the lives of several generations of First Nations peoples, including those who we