to Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada.4 The codes are those originally submitted to the In 1951, to be a member of a First Nation, one needed federal government as part of the process of a band opting to also be a status Indian in accordance with the into section 10, which is an important limitation in this registration provisions of the Indian Act. [...] The Indian Act new sections: section 10, which allowed bands to create has a long history of regulating Indigenous peoples’ their own membership rules, and section 11, which identity and belonging that stretches back to 1876 and allowed Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) to even earlier depending on how one counts.6 And while continue to control band membership in the way it had the act was. [...] Until 1951, Indian status was equivalent List for that band, and the name of every person who is not to band member status: one could only be an Indian if one was a member of a member of a band and is entitled to be registered shall be a band or vice versa.” And Gilbert (cited here at p.93) shows that the original entered in a General List. [...] if the above participant’s statements are proven to be true One person put it this way: it would represent a significant weaponization of federal legislation for the benefit of a few at the expense of others Being part of the band meant that I was part who simply want to belong. [...] and not mine?”115 This tension between membership Yet, he has at times also experienced feelings of resentment and kinship is concerning to the extent that the process towards his family members for not passing on language of seeking membership itself can at times be enough to and culture to him, which he felt would have been easier damage the very basis of why people want to belong with to do had.
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