How restrictions along U.S.-Canada border divide an Indigenous Arctic people

Different immigration laws on each side of the U.S.-Canada border mean members of Gwitchin and other Indigenous groups can be cut off from relatives and traditional lands.

By Gregory Scruggs, Thomson Reuters Foundation May 2, 2019
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SEATTLE — As plans for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border are raising fears that the ancestral lands of Native Americans in the south will be divided, Indigenous people in the north are calling attention to their own border problems.

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