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Men, Masculinity, and the Indian Act garfinkel University of Alaska Museum ofCanadas Indian Act is infamously sexist. Many iterations of the legislation conferred a womans status rights through marriage, and even once it was amended First Nations women could not necessarily pass their status on to their descendants. What has that injustice meant for First Nations men? Martin J. Cannon challenges a decades long assumption that the act has affected Indigenous people as either women or Indians but not both. He argues that sexism