With the U.S.-Canada border under scrutiny, Indigenous groups on both sides reaffirm their rights

As tensions rise at the Canada-U. S. border, Canadian Indigenous leaders are working with their American counterparts to remind the governments of both countries of First Nations’ inherent border rights.On Wednesday, National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak of the Assembly of First Nations met with the leaders of National Congress of American Indians to discuss the crisis prompted by President Donald Trump’s threat of a 25-per-cent tariff on most Canadian goods and his repeated suggestions that Canada should become the 51st state.