Sizzle
You can click those links to see that I didn't alter a word.
Sizzle the link you posted and what you quoted from the link says nothing about adoption of adults. You are choosing to interpret it that way.
You published this link in your introduction, and there you said ...
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=2312.75Reply #75
Sizzle Flambé
Well, I suppose there's a gaping loophole to let in every fake "Indian" on that list: get adopted by an enrolled Indian in Canada -- it instantly qualifies you to register as "Indian" yourself under Canadian law, even if you have not a drop of Indian ancestry and never learned anything about any tribe's culture:
i doubt you are doing Canadian First Nations any favours by inventing silly rumors that if people go to canada and find someone with Indian status to adopt them they can get Indian status too ...
In your very selective citing of the court case, you are quoting things out of context.
In context, it repeatedly says if the person is an adult they must have shown they were raised as a minor child by the family legally adopting them . In context, and just before the tiny bit you quoted....
[60]
The Registrar did obtain the requisite supporting documentation from Boczek and upon being satisfied that there had been a de facto adoption of Boczek while he was a minor, she allowed his application to be added to the Indian Register and the Band List, based on his legal adoption. Contrary to the early submissions of Samson to the Registrar, it was not relevant to her whether there had been a “custom adoption” of Boczek by Percy Johnson nor was it important for her to consult Samson as to its custom concerning adoptions. The Registrar was satisfied that an actual legal adoption had occurred and her investigation into whether a de facto adoption existed while Boczek was a minor was to ensure that the actual adoption was not a fraudulent attempt to gain benefits from band membership that Boczek would not otherwise be entitled to obtain. Such a result would have been contrary to the purposes of the Indian Act
And then quoting the bit you quoted , but in context
[61] Finally, it should also be noted that the Noël case involved an adult adoption in the province of Quebec. There appeared to be no dispute as to the entitlement of an adult adoptee to be added to a Band List but only whether a fraud had been perpetrated in the adoption procedure.
Earlier in the document it clearly explained that Noel was also a child who was raised by the people who legally adopted him as an adult...
[41] (begins....)As in the case at bar, Noël was an adult at the time of the adoption judgment and the Registrar conducted an investigation to confirm that a de facto adoption had occurred when he was a minor. (continues...)
You are leaving out all the parts that don't fit with what you seem to want to believe...Who knows why .... I don't want to keep arguing with you but if you do, people need to be careful about accepting what you post without really going over it for themselves.
