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Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Activists

Cindy Blackstock
 

Advocate for Indigenous Children
Gitxsan
born 1964

 

Bertha Clark Jones
 

Advocate for Indigenous Women
Cree-Métis
born 6 November 1922
died 21 October 2014

Marion Buller
 

Advocate for Indigenous Rights
Cree
born 5 July 1953
 

Jeannette Corbiere Lavell
 

Advocate for Indigenous Women
Anishinaabe
born 21 June 1942

 

Mary Two-Axe Earley
 

Advocate for Indigenous Women
Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk)
born 4 October 1911
died 21 August 1996

Autumn Peltier 
 

Advocate for Water Rights
Anishinaabe
born 27 September 2004

 

Jean Cuthland Goodwill
 

Advocate for Indigenous Health
Cree
born 14 August 1928
died 25 August 1997

Sheila Watt-Cloutier
 

Climate Change Awareness Advocate
Inuk
born 2 December 1953