How the Indian Act has impacted the lives of one Anishinaabe family In 1971, Jeanette Corbiere Lavell challenged the part of the Indian Act that removed a woman's Indian status if she married a non-Indigenous man, asserting that it violated her right to equality under the Canadian Bill of Rights. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indian-act-jeanette-corbiere-lavell-9.7156519?cmp=rss