Bill offers full Indian status to individuals who lost it through either forced enfranchisement or voluntary deregistration.

The bestselling author of ‘21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act’ has been enabling discourse about the act since his 2015 blog post about the legislation went viral. In Canada ...

Despite amendments to the Indian Act, gender-based discrimination against First Nations women and girls continues in Canada, according to the conclusions of a United Nations committee. The UN ...

When Pope Francis comes to Canada in July to apologize for the harms wrought by priests and nuns who operated more than half of the Indian residential schools, the Indian Act likely won’t be ...

University of Victoria provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. University of Victoria provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. There is a common misconception among ...

It also points to the way Indigenous women’s identities have been determined by men throughout most of Canada’s ... in 1876, the act created a system where Indian men were the focal point ...

The term “Indian” is an outdated, pejorative term that is no longer used to refer to Indigenous people in Canada, but it is the legal term used under the Indian Act to designate persons and ...