Ottawa eyes change to border rules for Indigenous communities. ‘It is an injustice that continues to divide our people’
The territory where Tim Argetsinger’s ancestors once moved freely and hunted in the Arctic spanned 2.5 million square kilometres of land — about a quarter of the size of Canada.
Today, that same land crosses a slew of international borders — parts of Canada, Greenland, Alaska in the U.S., and the Chukotka region of Russia, dividing up the members of his nation and community.
So when Argetsinger travels from the Native Village of Kotzebue, his hometown in Alaska, to Nuuk in Greenland, where his wife is from, and Ottawa, where his employer is, he must follow the same immigration laws and border rules as an American.
