Beyond Blood

Rethinking Indigenous Identity

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ID2708375
AuthorsPamela Palmater (0009-0009-6262-7742, corresponding author), Pamela D Palmater
Year2024
Pages279
Publication date2024-11-05
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueBeyond blood (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPurich Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.32920/27616212.v1
OpenAlexW565209113
Open LibraryOL25044776M
ISBN9781895830606
LanguageEN
Citations received26

Author Pamela Palmater argues that the Indian Act's registration provisions (status) will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. The current status criteria contain descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants. Beginning with an historic overview of legislative enactments defining Indian status and their impact on First Nations, the author examines contemporary court rulings dealing with Aboriginal rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in relation to Indigenous identity. She also examines various band membership codes to determine how they affect Indigenous identity, and how their reliance on status criteria perpetuates discrimination. She offers suggestions for a better way of determining Indigenous identity and citizenship and argues that First Nations themselves must determine their citizenship based on ties to the community, not blood or status. Dr. Palmater was subsequently registered as an Indian when Sharon McIvor won her court case against Canada for continued gender discrimination in the Indian Act. Now Palmater, McIvor and others continue the fight for the inclusion of their children and grandchildren excluded by gender discrimination

Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Band membership · canada · Indians of North America · Legal status, laws, etc · Tribal citizenship · Ecology

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