one in three Aboriginal women is abused. If an Aboriginal woman leaves the reserve to escape domestic abuse, she can lose her home. There are long waiting lists for housing on-reserve and often a great deal of pressure on band councils to re-allocate housing as soon as possible. Many Aboriginal women who wish to live on-reserve cannot do so, because of a lack of housing... At present, Indian women do not have the same human rights or protection of their rights as Canadian women.
