status-Indian

Canadian people

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legal status

  • Canada
    In Canada: Indigenous peoples

    …as Indians are known as status Indians. First Nations people who have chosen to give up their status rights or who have lost them through intermarriage with people of European ancestry are called nonstatus Indians. (Beginning in 1985, Canadian law has allowed those who lost their status through intermarriage to…

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