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kʷu sn̓ʕay̓čkstx (we are Sinixt) pútiʔ kʷu aláʔ (we are still here)
We are a transboundary Indigenous Tribe in the United States and an Aboriginal People of Canada. We have rights in both countries.
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The Sinixt Launch Dual Constitutional Challenges Against BC Government Over Discriminatory Exclusion from Land Consultation and Education
Today, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation filed two constitutional challenges to defend the rights of their Sinixt membership. The lawsuits come in response to British Columbia’s formal decisions to treat the Sinixt differently than other BC First Nations, despite the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that the Sinixt are an Aboriginal people of Canada in R. v. Desautel (2021).
Sinixt Confederacy Launches Ancestral Canoe Journey from Revelstoke to Kettle Falls
Today, Sinixt peoples embarked on their annual canoe journey, paddling from Revelstoke, BC to Kettle Falls, Washington—retracing the ancestral waterways that have shaped their identity, movement, and way of life since time immemorial.
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