The two generation cut-off clause.
No need to send in the cavalry with guns blazing. Legislation will do just as nicely.
And right now about 50 percent of status Indians are marrying non-status folk. No one knows for sure how long it will take, but according to John Borrows and Leroy Little Bear, two of Canada’s leading Aboriginal scholars and teachers, if this rate holds steady, in fifty to seventy-five years time there will be no status Indians left in Canada. We’ll still have the treaties and we’ll still have treaty land held in trust for status Indians by the government.
We just won’t have any Indians.
Legally, that is.
So, as the Ducks would say, what is it about us that you don’t like?
(King, 2003, “The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative.”)
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