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Black and white image of several people and a horse standing in front of teepees. A dog howls in the mid-foreground.

Ignored and deported, Cree ‘refugees’ echo the crises of today

January 28, 2019Immigration Rewind

Indigenous Crees lived in the northern Plains long before the US-Canada border divided the region. But bisected by the line and labeled “foreign” Indians in the US, Cree were denied basic necessities, work — and eventually, even the right to stay in the country.