Estimates of the baseline (2016) and projected longer-term impacts on the population entitled to Indian registration associated with amendments that would remove the "1951 cut-off" and "second generation cut-off" provisions in the 2010 Indian Act. These estimates are a result of the Descheneaux decision and the proposed amendments contained in Bill S-3.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 9, no. 4, October 2018, p. Article 2
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Uses a combination data from 2001 and 2006 Censuses, 2011 National Household Survey, and the Indian Register to calculate incidence and demographics for the two groups. Comments on implications of the high rates for young First Nations men, which could result in distortion of the male-female gender ratio and affect the continued legal existence of Status First Nations.
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, National Identity and Gender Politics, Summer, 2000, pp. 64-69
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Discussion of identity under the Indian Act and the past discriminatory provision of women who marry non-Indian men losing thier status, and social and political rights.
Process to take place as a result of the decision in Descheneaux c. Canada (Procureur général) which ruled on sex-based inequities in Indian registration affecting first cousins and siblings that were carried forward in the 1985 and 2010 amendments to the Indian Act. Bill S-3, the government's response, extends entitlement to status to people omitted from historic list.