I would like to explain that. It's more like the whole atmosphere around it. Discrimination against women is basically what it goes back to. It's at almost every level, going back generations.
My grandmother, who lived in a first nations community, married—on the paper or the registration it says French half-breed, but he was a Métis man. They got married, and because he was not a status Indian they were kicked off the reserve and she lost her status. So our whole family since then.... We didn't move far. The Swan Lake reserve is here and we moved three miles away. We all lived around that community, because we were all related and we visited with each other all the time.
That happened years ago. I think it was about 80 or 90 years ago. It's just now, a few months ago, that I got my status back. It was a few years ago that my father, under Bill C-31, got his status back.