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status Indian

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status Indian
n. Canadian
A federally registered member of a band or First Nation, having special status under Canadian law. See Usage Note at First Nation.

status Indian
n
(Social Science / Peoples) Canadian a member of a native Canadian people who is registered as an Indian under the federal Indian Act


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This latter rule removed status from children when they reached the age of 21 if their mother and paternal grandmother were not status before marrying status Indians.
Status Indian, Non-Status Indian, Inuit or Metis are elligible to apply.
Since its creation by the federal government in 1876, the Indian Act has attempted to assimilate status Indians and the lands they occupied (reserves) into the greater Canadian society.
 
 
 
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