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11 Mar Status debate mounts as bill offers benefits to another 45,000 natives: Ottawa introduces legislation to extend recognition to grandchildren of aboriginal women (The Globe and Mail)

A quarter century after aboriginal women won the right to remain status Indians when they marry non-aboriginal men, new legislation proposes that their grandchildren also be entitled to the designation. The changes suggested by the federal government Thursday would add about 45,000 people to the...

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