{"id":46629,"date":"2016-04-18T00:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46629"},"modified":"2016-04-18T00:15:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T00:15:56","slug":"mixed-race-indigenous-people-should-get-benefits-extended-to-those-with-indian-status-canadian-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46629","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race indigenous people should get benefits extended to those with Indian status, Canadian court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/mexico-americas\/la-fg-canada-metis-20160414-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed-race indigenous people should get benefits extended to those with Indian status, Canadian court rules<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.linkedin.com\/in\/christopher-guly-a557a260\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Guly<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For decades in Canada, people of mixed indigenous and European ancestry didn\u2019t qualify for \u201cIndian\u201d status and were denied a host of benefits granted to other <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Nations\" target=\"_blank\">First Nations<\/a> people, including government funding, free postsecondary education and health benefits, and hunting and fishing rights.<\/p>\n<p>In a landmark ruling Thursday, that changed. The Canadian Supreme Court declared that hundreds of thousands of mixed-race indigenous people, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=414\" target=\"_blank\">Metis<\/a> in Canada, along with non-status Indians living off reservations, should have access to the same government programs and services as those with Indian status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something that will impact about 600,000 people across the country who have been denied recognition or access to entitlements that they now have been declared by the court as having,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/capchief\" target=\"_blank\">Dwight Dorey<\/a>, national chief of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ottawa\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa<\/a>-based <a href=\"http:\/\/abo-peoples.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Congress of Aboriginal Peoples<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/mexico-americas\/la-fg-canada-metis-20160414-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed-race indigenous people should get benefits extended to those with Indian status, Canadian court rules The Los Angeles Times 2016-04-14 Christopher Guly For decades in Canada, people of mixed indigenous and European ancestry didn\u2019t qualify for \u201cIndian\u201d status and were denied a host of benefits granted to other First Nations people, including government funding, free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,1467,8,3015,26],"tags":[23562,23564,23563,3909,13272],"class_list":["post-46629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-politics","tag-christopher-guly","tag-congress-of-aboriginal-peoples","tag-dwight-dorey","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46630,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46629\/revisions\/46630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}