DCHP-2
enfranchised DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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adj.
no longer having status as an Indian with band membership and rights as an Indian.
See also: status self-determination
- 1939 (1942) An enfranchised Indian has all the rights and liabilities of any other British subject.
- 1958 Now we find the old community house a thing of the past, many of the Indians in individual homes of their own, some marrying amongst the white people, and moving away to other towns or cities, some being enfranchised and accepting the white man's burden.
- 1961 On her mother's marriage to a non-Indian Denise was enfranchised, but on her own marriage to John, she became a Treaty Indian again.
- 1939 (1942) An enfranchised Indian has all the rights and liabilities of any other British subject.