Sylvia McAdam remembers when she and three other women started talking about who has the jurisdiction and authority to talk about land and water.
They all agreed that it is women who are the law keepers. Thus the Idle No more movement was born.
McAdam released a book entitled, Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing nehiyaw Legal Systems.
She says the Idle No More movement and the book are intertwined and connected.
“In the book I talk about the role of women and how it is been so devastated and destroyed and decimated by the Indian Act,” says McAdam.
“As well as colonialism, patriarchy and misogyny, the systems of genocide.”
In late 2013, the Idle No More movement came to life in response to the Federal Government’s plan to create laws that would impact the environment.