FEM 3108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Indian Register, Sun Dance
13 Nov 2015
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Still discrimination against fn women: this is against a principle of the test of fairness that you can"t lose status if you marry out, band was not provided funds for the new members. Indian affairs underestimated the amount of people who were eligible for status. In order for a status fn woman to pass on status to her children, they have to produce a birth certificate. If no father on birth certificate, child will not have status, unless fn man adopts the child: father"s name must be on birth certificate, right to be indian flows from paternal line, so discriminatory. 2011: bill c-3 amendment to indian act"s registration provision: gender equity in indian registration act/macgyver decision because sharon. Macgyver challenged the discrimination of bill c-31 because she couldn"t pass status to her son. She won but her child still didn"t receive status: created new category 6(1c) grandchildren of fn women who married out and.
