Initiated in response to the Descheneaux decision dealing with denial of status to some members of First Nations due to sexual discrimination. Took place to seek input on implementation of removal of 1951 cut-off from the Indian Act, remaining inequities related to registration and membership and transferring responsibility for membership and citizenship to First Nations. Consisted of community consultations, online survey, regional events and expert panels.
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 1992, pp. 1-35
Description
History of the Lubicon, and their struggle for recognition as a people, with discussion about the changing positions of the Federal and Provincial governments regarding the right of the Lubicon to determine their own membership.
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 20, no. 7, January 1992, p. 1
Description
Due to an old Indian Act provision, Christine Blackstar LaPlante could exercise voting rights and received annuities after her 1937 marriage to a Métis man. However, that legislation prevented her from living at Moosomin reserve and excluded her children from membership.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Florence Boucher
Description
File contains a presentation by Florence Boucher detailing discrimination she experienced because of the Indian Act and Bill C-31. She is frustrated that some persons under Bill C-31 receive education funding, while others also under the Bill do not receive funding. Following the presentation are remarks by the Commissioners.
File contains a presentation by Grace Menconse, Vice-President of Native Mediation Inc. Menconse, a Bill C-31 person, discusses her groups problems with an undefined self-government, jurisdictional issues, with lack of accountability and transparency in Band politics, and the need to apply the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to Status Indians. Menconse also discusses electoral fraud and serious human rights abuses which she accuses Aboriginal leadership of being complicit in.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Harold Prince
Description
File contains a presentation by Harold Prince relating to the overwhelming demand for housing on the Nak'azdli First Nation, due to Bill C-31 reinstatement, members returning home for economic reasons or upon completion of their education. He calls on the Commission to help secure more funding for proper housing for band members. Following the presentation is a question-and-answer session with the Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples - Transcriptions of Public Hearings and Round Table Discussions
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Merilda St-Onge
Description
File contains a presentation by Merilda St-Onge, representative of the women of the Montagnais Nation. St-Onge discusses the legal issues pertaining to women's status in the Indian Act, and Bill C-31, as well as the issues she has personally faced as a reinstated individual under that legislation. St-Onge also discusses Montagnais women's economic and political issues in a more general sense, paternity issues, and other related matters. Following the presentation St-Onge discusses these issues with Commissioners Dussault, Wilson, and Chartrand.
Timeline from the General Enfranchisement Act to the Indian Act and pertinent court cases and decisions which resulted in legislation to amend the Act.