Sentences with phrase «indian nation status»

In the case of Botox maker Allergan and its blockbuster dry - eye drug Restasis, the surprising answer is transfer the patents to the Saint Regis Mohawk tribe to take advantage of its sovereign Indian Nation status and ward off intellectual property challenges.

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Despite having a troubled relationship with India since the Sino - Indian War of 1962, China knows that having Most Favored Nation status with the U.S. (rechristened as Permanent Normal Trade Relations) is much too important to jeopardize.

To evaluate the current status of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of breastfeeding interventions targeting minorities, we conducted PubMed searches in February 2011 using «breastfeeding» and «randomized trial» along with each of the following descriptors: Latina, Latino, Hispanic, black, African American, Asian, Native American, First Nation, Indian, minority, and low income.

Eligible students must be Status Indian / First Nations (or be able to provide a copy of proof of Indigenous ancestry) with at least 60 per cent of a full course load.

She followed up her initial posts with interesting information about the experience of having a post go viral, and then further discussion of First Nations finances and Indian status generally.

The term Aboriginal includes First Nations, Inuk or Inuit, Métis, Status Indian, or Non-Status Indian.

This term refers to a legal status applied to certain First Nations individuals who are registered under the Indian Act on the Indian Register.

While some communities of First Nations people who are «status Indians» under the Indian Act do receive funding from the federal government to pay for some students» tuition, living expenses and books, that funding is significantly limited.

• Driver's licence, Provincial ID Card, Passport, Metis Nations of Alberta card, Secure Certificate of Indian Status (SCIS) Card

• Driver's licence, provincial ID card, passport, NEXUS card, Canadian armed forced ID card, permanent residence card, Metis Nations of Alberta card, Secure Certificate of Indian Status (SCIS) Card

While groups like the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations) worked to represent those who had status, others, like the Canadian Métis Society, developed to represent those without status.

Over 90 per cent of persons with registered Indian status identified as First Nations people.

Beyak, who made news throughout 2017 for comments about what she saw as the «good» done at Indian Residential Schools and for her call for First Nations people to «give up their status cards and become Canadian,» published letters from supporters on her website between June and August 2017 and added more letters in October.

During the various campaigns to force assimilation on First Nations people the government (and later Parliament) elected to deny Indian status to newborn children unless the mother were willing to identify the father.7 (It is worth noting that the right of the mother to identify the father and, indeed, to advise the father of his paternity remains an issue today.

will hopefully lead to Canada revisiting its arbitrary and exclusionary policies towards Métis and non-status Indians (i.e., members of First Nations who are not able to register as «status Indians» under the Indian Act).

I have long understood this statement to refer to eliminating eligibility for Indian status and eliminating First Nations communities.

More than 74.9 per cent of First Nations people had Indian status.

One where status Indians have been denied band membership at Peters First Nation where the Kinder Morgan pipeline runs directly through.