A Goodreads user asked Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer:

Thanks for your question about the death certificate. A reply was posted underneath your review. I really appreciate the fact that you paid attention to accuracy and detail?

Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer You dealt with it well Helene. I didn't want to embarrass you but I had the feeling the answer would be fascinating. It also shows that I am massively stuck in my Western culture not to have thought about "traditional" marriage as opposed to civil. One would assume, however, that the law ought to acknowledge Indigenous marriage. If that has been the way of doing things for hundreds of years and they have their own ways of formalising such unions. The implications for women's rights and well-being would be a whole different subject.

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