Strathroy

You can’t break the rules
until you know how to play the game.

~ Rickie Lee Jones
American – Musician Born: November 8, 1954

November 8th is Indigenous Veterans’ Day.

A special tribute to all the Indigenous people that joined the military even though they had to enfranchise in Canada and loose their Indian Status.

Enfranchisement had an impact on all subsequent generations of people. Regardless of whether an individual was voluntarily, or involuntarily enfranchised, subsequent generations could not appear on band lists or on the Indian Register as a status Indian.

Bill C-31 removed both voluntary and involuntary enfranchisement provisions. Individuals who enfranchised, along with their children, could be reinstated or became eligible for registration.

The 2017 amendments (Bill S-3) corrected sex-based inequities for women, and their descendants, when the woman involuntarily lost entitlement to registration due to marriage to a non-Indian man. Bill S-3 brings entitlement to descendants of women who married a non-Indian man in line with descendants of individuals who were never enfranchised. However, the descendants of individuals who were enfranchised for other reasons (both voluntary and involuntary) remain at a disadvantage in comparison. These remaining inequities within the Indian Act continue to have an impact.

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1540403281222/1568898803889