Status Cards

• Okanagan Nation Alliance among Indigenous groups issuing travel advisory to U.S.

  Indigenous travellers crossing the border into the United States are being warned to exercise extreme caution amid an increasingly tense political climate.

  Canada

  Feb 2
  
• Study highlights discrimination faced by B.C. residents when using Indian status card

  Discrimination examples include rudeness, refusing to accept status cards, acting as if processing them is a hassle and suggestions that status cards are an unfair advantage.

  Canada

  Nov 16, 2022
  
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• B.C. powwow organizers apologize after identity-based event rules spark outrage

  The rules sparked immediate backlash, with some accusing the Kamloopa Powwow Society of enforcing colonial blood quantum and excluding gender diverse people.

  Canada

  Jul 13, 2022
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• Southern Chiefs helping First Nations Manitobans navigate status card process

  Indigenous Manitobans who need to renew or replace their status cards are getting a hand from the Southern Chiefs' Organization.

  Politics

  Nov 29, 2021
• London-area Indigenous group: Sen. Beyak resignation ‘best-case scenario’ but ‘doubtful’

  As mayors of some of Canada's biggest cities call for the resignation of a controversial senator, the head of a local advocacy group says that's the best case scenario, but unlikely.

  Politics

  Sep 15, 2017
• Edmonton, Winnipeg mayors call for Lynn Beyak’s resignation over Indigenous issues comments: ‘Her time in the Senate should be over’

  As controversy continues to swirl around an Ontario senator's contentious positions on issues affecting Canada's Indigenous people, two prominent Canadian mayors are calling for her to step down.

  Politics

  Sep 14, 2017
• Senator calls for Indigenous people to trade status cards for Canadian citizenship

  Sen. Lynn Beyak once again defended residential schools and says that the Indian Act is not needed.

  Politics

  Sep 14, 2017