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    "Native people living off reserves often find government red tape an impossible barrier to regaining their official Indian status, the president of the Ontario Metis and Aboriginal Association said T

Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 3 Dec 1997     "Alberta Native Bands will have lawyers plead before the Supreme Court today that the Bands on reserves should continue to choose who their members are, not bureaucrats in office towers in Ottawa."

    A letter from Chief William Montour to Six Nations Members regarding changes that need to be made the Residency By-Law.

Aubry, Jack, The Ottawa Citizen, 25 May 1991     "When it comes to dirty-tricks political campaigns, the current race for national Indian chief challenges the best of them."

Turtle Island News, 17 Jun 1998, pp.1-2     Aboriginal women oppose divorce bill OTTAWA - Aboriginal women applied for an injunction last Wednesday against a federal bill that would give band councils on reserves the power to decide who gets t

Duric, Donna, Turtle Island News, 29 Aug 2012     "It's a problem still affecting many First Nations women across Canada today, almost 30 years after the Indian Act was amended-not being able to pass their status on to their Children. The reality of

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 10 Jun 1998, pp.1-2     Teacher's wife gets 30 days to leave By Lynda Powless, Editor A non-native woman has been given an additional 30 days to leave the community after Six Nations Band Council told a local couple Monday

Powless, Lynda, Turtle Island News, 8 Jul 1998     Band Council bylaw not being enforced By Lynda Powless, Editor Six Nations Band council may be finding itself having a difficult time trying to enforce eviction orders issued under its local residenc

Barnsley, Paul, Tekawennake News (Ohsweken, Ontario: Tekawennake News, 1968), 26 Apr 1995, pp.1-2     Re-write the residency by-law by Paul Barnsley SIX NATIONS - Saying any ambiguity must be held against the drafter of a law or regulation, Judge Peter Mitchell dismissed charges brought in Provincial

Green, Joyce A., Native Journal, May 2010     "Dear Political Leaders and Others: I have been studying and writing about the status and discrimination issues in the Indian Act membership provisions since 1985. My work is well known in the schola