This clause treated
status Indian women and men differently; Indian women lost their status if they married non-status men, while Indian men conferred Indian status on their non-Indian wives.
By the Department's own accounting, over 3,500
status Indians served in the Great War, amounting to no less than one-third of all
status Indian males of military age at the time.
Although frequent references are made to
status Indians (i.e., First Nations), the specific focus of this paper is not the registered or
status Indian population.
Although she identifies as a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation of Mi'kmaq in northern New Brunswick, she is not recognized as a
status Indian b), Ottawa and has been prevented from participating fully in the political processes and economic benefits of her community.
Members of First Nations are known officially as registered Indians if they are entitled to benefits under the Indian Act; a more common term is
status Indian (from treaty status), with non-status Indian designating a member of a First Nation who is not entitled to benefits.
Status Indian employees at two of three First Nations University of Canada campuses will be paying federal income tax beginning in 2013.
A
status Indian woman who married a non-status Indian man automatically lost her status and any attendant rights, while a
status Indian man who married a non-status Indian woman not only kept his status, but passed his status onto his wife.
McIvor was of First Nations descent on both her mother's and father's sides: her maternal grandmother was a
status Indian and her paternal grandmother was entitled to be registered.
removes legislation that bars members of First Nations from voting, Frank Calder, a hereditary chief of the Nisga'a nation, becomes the first
status Indian elected to a provincial legislature.
Despite the successes of the Aboriginal rights movement and the women's movement in expanding their respective constituents' rights over the last thirty years,
status Indian women continue to lag behind.
He was the first
status Indian to graduate from the University of British Columbia's Anglican Theological College, and in 1949 was the first aboriginal to be elected to the B.C.
Status Indian veterans received only a small fraction of compensation compared to other soldiers.