IntroductionThe topic of our research paper is oppression against women in the Indian Act. Discrimination against Aboriginal people is a key issue to many years; however, society generally skims the surface of this act and tends to give lip service to it without acknowledging the deeper question of how these oppressions arise. At the beginning of our research we immediately drew parallels between the oppression of Aboriginal women and the injustices they face and the breakdown of Aboriginal families and communities. As future social workers working from an anti-oppressive practice perspective, the proposed research will help gain the knowledge to build politicized and transformative social work. Our team believes that by focusing on the female gender and how these women throughout history have been oppressed, we will be able to carry out our role as social workers from a truly empathetic position; so our future work with all Aboriginal people will be more effective. In this proposal our team seeks to explore the inequities within the Indian Act. To achieve this, the proposed research will examine the target population of Aboriginal women. The article will further explore the oppressions faced by Aboriginal women under the Indian Act. In conclusion, this proposal will summarize the negative impact the Indian Act has had on Aboriginal women and how it continues to oppress this population all within the Canadian national discourse. The Indian Act Oppression is not always carried out in a violent and oppositional way, it can take a peaceful and silent form; however, regardless of how it is introduced, oppression maintains the same characteristics of “imposing belief systems, values, laws and ways of… middle of paper… men and the effects of this have been overcome through generations and can be seen in our society today. References Baines, D. (2007). Do anti-oppressive practices. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.Consolidation: Indian Act Chapter I-5. (n.d.). Retrieved January 25, 2011, from http://laws.justice.gc.ca/PDF/Statute/I/I-5.pdf Frideres, J. S., & Gadacz, R. R. (2005). Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Toronto: Pearson. Gehl, L. (2000). National identity and gender politics: The Queen and I, discrimination against women in Indian law continues. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press Inc. Gosine, A. (2000). Presentation by Adrienne Clarkson: gender, nation and the new governor general. North York, ON: York University Press.Lavell-Harvard. D. M. & Lavell, J. C. (2006). Until our hearts are on the ground. Toronto: Demeter Press.