http://www.grahamlawyerblog.com/2009/06/06/native-americans-protest-okanogan-county/ The perspective of a defense attorney Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:57:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.grahamlawyerblog.com/2009/06/06/native-americans-protest-okanogan-county/#comment-22 silxwakn - sinixt nation Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:30:45 +0000 http://www.grahamlawyerblog.com/?p=128#comment-22 i have used the border crossing for as far back as i can remember. now i use it even more because i and my wife are attempting to raise our young sons okanagan, with the language being a top priority. my wife and our children are enrolled tribal members of the osoyoos indian band in oliver, bc, i am enrolled arrow lakes with the colville tribes. i and my little family were at the crossing demistration. the words spoken from from both sides were just political people talking, because i still am harassed and forced to show more than my colville indian card on the canada side. canada side does not accept the colville tribal blue card as proper id, they say it does not prove citizenship. although i have crossed the border a few hundred times in the last (3) or (4) years. the politians are not the ones who must deal with these issues, so they really do not know what kind of hassles we go through. I have full blooded relative all up into the okanagan valley. from oliver to spahman, williams lake, vernon. these are the same relatives my grand parents brought me to visit when i was young. canada can not see what inhuman thing they are doing when they do not allow us to visit family, attend funurals and other tradtional ceremonies in our home lands. i could go on and on, but what good does it do? i have used the border crossing for as far back as i can remember. now i use it even more because i and my wife are attempting to raise our young sons okanagan, with the language being a top priority. my wife and our children are enrolled tribal members of the osoyoos indian band in oliver, bc, i am enrolled arrow lakes with the colville tribes.
i and my little family were at the crossing demistration. the words spoken from from both sides were just political people talking, because i still am harassed and forced to show more than my colville indian card on the canada side. canada side does not accept the colville tribal blue card as proper id, they say it does not prove citizenship. although i have crossed the border a few hundred times in the last (3) or (4) years. the politians are not the ones who must deal with these issues, so they really do not know what kind of hassles we go through.
I have full blooded relative all up into the okanagan valley. from oliver to spahman, williams lake, vernon. these are the same relatives my grand parents brought me to visit when i was young. canada can not see what inhuman thing they are doing when they do not allow us to visit family, attend funurals and other tradtional ceremonies in our home lands.
i could go on and on, but what good does it do?

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