Don’t you just love it when people tell you not only who you are, but who our people will be? Last week Canada’s Senate passed amendments to a bill that is aimed at making it easier to transfer First Nations status between generations. Bill S-2 was to eliminate gender inequities in the Indian Act, inequities Canada created, not Indigenous communities. The effect of Bill S-2 is some 6,000 people are expected to become eligible for First Nations status at the outset. What they did was eliminate a section of their own legislation that became known as the “second generation cutoff.” That move stole entire generations of Indigenous people from their culture, their history, their people. The second-generation cutoff wasn’t just limiting status to a second generation it was aimed at…
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