Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) has developed a secure prototype of the certificate of Indian status card.The card will be made available this summer, but whether it can be used in place of a passport next year, when more stringent rules will be in place covering documentation needed to cross the United States border, is not known.
“I hope we are going to be able to utilize that card to be able to do what we do as First Nations people to enhance our spirituality by allowing us to practise our culture,” said Mike Pinay, a Regina elder. (The Star Phoenix)
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I Believe we will be able to used the new Card to Cross The Border By Land Or Sea,But If The U.S Government Denies us The Right To Move Freely Across the Border you can believe there will be Hugh Lawsuit. They take our land,Put us on reservations and tell us we can’t travel as we please.We have been traveling back in forth between Canada and The U.S long Before there where Borders. If you want to get technical The U.S and Canada was one piece of land and IT WAS OURS