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Jeannette Corbiere Lavell (born June 21, 1942) is a Canadian and Anishinaabe community worker who focused on women's and children's rights. In 2018, she was honoured as a member of the Order of Canada. Biography She was born Jeannette Vivian Corbiere in Wikwemikong, Ontario to Adam and Rita Corbiere. Her mother, a school teacher, was a cofounder of the Wikwemikong "Wiky" Powwow. Corbiere Lavell learned English from her mother and Ojibwe from her father. Corbiere Lavell attended business college in North Bay. After graduation, she worked for the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto as an executive secretary. She was associated with the Company of Young Canadians, which gave her an opportunity to travel around the country, and was named, in 1965, as "Indian Princess of Canada".Corbiere Lavell married David Lavell in 1970, a non-Indigenous man, and subsequently was no longer deemed an Indian according to the Indian Act. She challenged the Act in 1971; though her challenge failed, she inspired a later challenge, the success of which "permitted reinstatement of the First Nations women and children who had lost their status". She later served as president of the Native Women's Association of Canada and founded the Ontario Native Women's Association of Canada. Corbiere Lavell served as a cabinet appointee or the Commission on the Native Justice System, president or the Nishnawbe Institute, and president of Anduhyaun Inc. After she earned a teaching degree from the University of Western Ontario, she worked as a teacher and school principal. She co-edited "Until Our Hearts Are On the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth".Her daughter, Dawn Harvard, was the youngest ever president of the Ontario Native Women's Association. That organization established an award in honour of Corbiere Lavell in 1987.In September 2009, she became the president of the organization NWAC (Native Women's Association of Canada) for a three-years period. In 2016, Corbiere Lavell was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws at York University for her work as a Native women's rights activist and educator.In April 2018 The Feminist Alliance for International Action recognized Jeannette as a member of the Indigenous Famous Six. Other members are Yvonne Bedard, Senator Sandra Lovelace Nicholas, Sharon McIvor, Lynn Gehl, and Senator Lillian Dyck. Awards Persons Award (2009) Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012) Member of the Order of Canada (2017) Indspire Award, Lifetime Achievement (2020)See also Canada (AG) v LavellReferences. Discover the Jeannette Bedard popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jeannette Bedard books.

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    Far Side of the Moon

    Jeannette Bedard

    Margo Murphy is running out of time in a borrowed body.Last night, Margo and her fellow colonists survived The Conglomerate's efforts to destroy them. Now all she wants is to build...

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    Hope is the Thing With Feathers

    Jeannette Bedard

    An airship. A message. A stowaway.On the floating islands of New Venus, humans have lived for centuries. From far above the planet's surface, they mine the mineralrich atmosphere, ...

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    Day 115 on an Alien World

    Jeannette Bedard

    A barren world. A crashed colony ship. A saboteur at work.After a tarnished military record leaves her unable to find work on Earth, Margo is hunting for a fresh start. A colonizin...

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    The Alien Artifact

    Jeannette Bedard

    In the actionpacked series finale, Margo Murphy is on the warpath.Life on Thesan is stable, almost ordinary just what Margo wants. She thinks the colony's challenges are behind th...

  • Abandoned Ships, Hijacked Minds synopsis, comments

    Abandoned Ships, Hijacked Minds

    Jeannette Bedard

    Against the odds, the Thesan colonyMargo's new homeis starting to thrive.However the group wasn't the first colony ship sent through the wormhole to settle a new solar system. Two ...

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    The Alien Algorithm

    Jeannette Bedard

    Veena will let nothing stand in her way to get her daughter back.Sevenyearold Molly has been snatched from her and dragged off to a secret military lab. Veena's clues have dried up...

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    Subject 34

    Jeannette Bedard

    In the conclusion to the Encoded Orbits trilogy, Veena and Hwicce Oswiu take refuge aboard an inherited water tanker while their daughter, Molly, remains ensnared in the sinister c...

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    Fractured Orbits

    Jeannette Bedard

    She is a mutation. She is an abomination. She is a power that could change the universe – or end it. And she is only seven years old.It's been 250 years since we discovered the vas...