Status card list for First Nations is a hot mess
Public health leaders need to understand the implications of relying on a flawed database and its colonial roots. There is no alternative until First Nations determine our own ways of building and recognizing community, based in our own values and knowledge systems.
OTTAWA—I am status, card-carrying First Nations—the federal government calls me a real one. The status card is a race-based ethnic identity card used to limit access to certain federal government programs for real First Nations peoples only. It used to be based on blood quantum, one had to prove...
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