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DNA Testing to Prove Indian Status Limited

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Paul Barnsley
Windspeaker, vol. 24, no. 7, October 2006, p. 9

Even with the amendments made to the Indian Act in 1985, complexities continue to surround Aboriginal people's attempts to regain their legal status.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.

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Dolphus Houle Interview

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Dolphus Houle
Ernest Crane
Indian History Film Project
Interview relates entirely to the interviewee's inability to obtain treaty status.
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Elder Brother, the Law of the People, and Contemporary Kinship Practices of Cowessess First Nation Members: Reconceptualizing Kinship in American Indian Studies Research

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert Alexander Innes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 34, no. 2, 2010, pp. 27-46
Study probes the importance of kinship relations, with respect to individual and collective identity, for members of the Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan.
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The Exploratory Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership and Citizenship: Highlights of Findings and Recommendations

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
Overview of process to identify, examine and discuss broad issues of registration, membership and citizenship beyond the amendments to Bill C-3. Included participation of 20 organizations resulting in 55 national, regional and local First Nation and Métis organizations taking part.
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Extinction by Number: Colonialism Made Easy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Val Napoleon
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 16, no. 1, 2001, pp. [113]-145
Discusses First Nations citizenship and nationhood by looking at the Indian Act and First Nations band membership as well as First Nations concept of nationhood and citizenship and colonial influences.
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A First Nation Citizenship Code

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Provides a mechanism for determining citizenship to preserve cultural and political integrity and outlines three fundamental objectives of the Citizenship Code.
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First Nation Perspectives on Political Identity

Alternate Title
First Nation Citizenship Research & Policy Series: Building Towards Change
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Taiaiake Alfred
Focuses on First Nations perspectives on meaning of being Indigenous, belonging to a community, and relationship of these memberships with the institutions of the Canadian state.
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First Nations Registration (Status) and Membership Research Report

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
AFN [Assembly of First Nations]-INAC [Indian and Northern Affairs] Joint Technical Working Group
Includes: brief history of issues, observations on the current state of affairs, review of existing research and information, and identification of areas for future investigation.
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First Nations Women: Leaders in Community Development

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jan Langford
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 14, no. 4, Women of the North, Fall, 1994, pp. 34-36
Comments on the changes that have taken place in communities since the inception of the Yukon Indian Women's Association.
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Fragmentation and Realignment: The Continuing Cycle of Métis and Non-Status Indian Political Organizations in Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joe Sawchuk
Native Studies Review, vol. 10, no. 2, 1995, pp. 77-95
Outlines four major change agents operating on Aboriginal political organizations on the prairies: external politics; internal politics; negotiation of ethno-Aboriginal identities; perceived effectiveness of the organizations.
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Frequently Asked Questions: Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act

Alternate Title
[Frequently Asked Questions - Engagement Process - Amendments to the Registration Provisions of the Indian Act As per the Court of Appeal for British Columbia's Decision in the Sharon McIvor Litigation]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Answers questions regarding new amendments to the Indian Act in the wake of the ruling of McIvor v. Canada (Registrar of Indian and Northern Affairs).
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Gendering Decolonization, Decolonizing Gender

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kiera L. Ladner
Looks at issues of Indigenous constitutional visions, treaty constitutionalism and decolonization through a gendered lens. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, UBC, June 2008.
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Hail to the Chief - The Changing Structure of Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada

Alternate Title
Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives=Lieu et Mémoire au Canada: Perspectives Globales
[Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies ; 3rd]
[International Conference of Central European Canadianists ; 3rd]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jan Grabowski
Conference paper from: Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives: 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies and 3rd International Conference of Central European Canadianists, April 30-May 3, 2004, Cracow, Poland edited by Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, and Anna Śpiewak. Discusses Aboriginal identity and Bill C-31.
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Health Research, Entitlements and Health Services for First Nations and Métis Women in Manitoba and Saskatchewan

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Margaret J. Haworth-Brockman
Kathy Bent
Joanne Havelock
Journal of Aboriginal Health, vol. 4, no. 2, Aboriginal Womens Health, December 2009, pp. 17-23
Discusses significant differences in access to health care services based on treaty and historical entitlements and the importance of taking these differences into account for health research.
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The Hours That Remain by Keith Barker: Study Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Angela Code
Provides historical background about issues relating to the play about the murdered and missing women from the "Highway of Tears", a section of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
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How Did Adoption Become a Dirty Word? Indigenous Citizenship Orders as Irreconcilable Spaces of Aboriginality

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kahente Horn-Miller
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 354-364
Examines the complexity of identity and community belonging in the context of the Indian Act, colonial influence, Indigenous kinship systems, contemporary spaces, and the 2016 revision of Kahnawà:ke Law on Membership regarding adoption.
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The Impact of Registered Indian Status on Education, Employment, and Mobility

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Drake Thomas Rushford
Uses the 1991 Aboriginal Peoples' Survey public-use file in a difference-indifferences cohort analysis to assess how gaining status as a result of the passage of Bill C-31 might affect economic outcomes. Extended essay in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Arts in Economics.
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Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act (Bill C-31): Impacts on Indian Bands, Tribal Councils and Off-Reserve Communities (Module 3)

Alternate Title
Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act (Bill C-31): [Module] 3 Bands and Communities Studies
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Related Material: Module One: Aboriginal Inquiry. Module Two: Survey of Adult Bill C-31 Registrants. Module Four: Information about Government Programs and Statistics.
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Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act (Bill C-31): Survey of Adult Bill C-31 Registrants (Module 2)

Alternate Title
Impacts of the 1985 Amendments to the Indian Act (Bill C-31): [Module] 2 Survey of Registrants
E-Books
Author/Creator
Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Related Material: Module One: Aboriginal Inquiry. Module Three: Impacts on Indian Bands. Module Four: Information about Government Programs and Statistics. Summary Repo
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Impacts of the 1985 Indian Act Amendments: A Case Study of Brokenhead Ojibway Nation

E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Stewart Clatworthy
Aboriginal Policy Research, vol. 5

Looks at impacts of Bill C-31 including population, demography, membership, demand for programs and services, and key social and political changes. Chapter four from Moving Forward, Making a Difference, vol. 3, which is also vol. 5 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the second annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2006.

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The Implementation of Bill C-31

Alternate Title
NWAC Presentation
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Native Women's Association of Canada
Identifies problems in areas of time taken for processing applications and returning decisions on their success or failure, increasing rates of denial of status, and falling rate of restorations for women who lost status as a result of marriage
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