JAY TREATY BORDER ALLIANCE

2025

• February 20 - Heinrich, Schatz Lead Colleagues In Demanding Trump’s DHS Uphold Federal Trust And Treaty Responsibilities To Tribal Nations And Immediately End Wrongful Ice Searches And Harassment Of Tribal Members - Indian Affairs Committee

2024

• October 15, 2024 - ALERT: Interim Measures Announced to Improve Border Crossing for U.S.-born American Indians

• April 15, 2024 - ICT News: Eliminating Blood Quantum Requirements for US-Canada Crossing

• April 3, 2024 - Act Now: Consultation Comment Template to Challenge U.S. DHS Sec. 289 Proposal

• March 28, 2024 - U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Improve U.S.-Canada Border Crossing

• February 8, 2024 - Want to work in the U.S. through the Jay Treaty? Some say process is confusing, frustrating. 

• January 4, 2024 - Jay Treaty and Indigenous Student Mobility Across the Canada-U.S. Border: A Focus on the Cascadia Region

​2023

• October 5, 2023 - Commending Canada’s Initiative to Improve Border Crossing for Indigenous Peoples

• August 1, 2023 - Sens. Hoeven, Risch, Rep. Armstrong & Bipartisan Group Introduce Legislation to Restore Normal Hours of Operation at Northern Border Crossings

• July 13, 2023 - Save the Date! 2023 Fall JTBA Summit Announcement

• June 28, 2023 - Attend DHS’s July 6 Tribal Consultation on the 2024 Equity Action Plan

• June 14, 2023 - JTBA Attends NCAI Tribal Border Caucus

• June 8, 2023 - Sens. Hoeven, Risch, and Bipartisan Group to CBP: Return Northern Ports of Entry to Pre-Pandemic Hours

• May 26, 2023 - How Canadian Universities Can Honour the Jay Treaty

• April 13, 2023 - JTBA Sends its Condolences to the Family of Geewadin Elliott

• March 30, 2023 - JTBA Press Release: U.S. Department of Homeland Security Seeking Five Advisors for American Indian and Alaska Native Cultures

• March 29, 2023 - JTBA Press Release: Canada and United States Joint Statement on the Challenges of the International Border on Indigenous Communities

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2022

• December 5, 2022 - JTBA Press Release: White House Announces Reciprocal Indigenous Mobility Initiative Ahead of Tribal Nations Summit

• June 30, 2022 - Grand Chiefs Sky-Deer, Benedict and Connors attending Jay Treaty Border Alliance conference

• June 29, 2022 - First Nations members briefly halt bridge traffic for border ceremony

• June 29, 2022 - ArriveCAN app may stay as part of larger border modernization, Mendicino's comments suggest

• June 28, 2022 - First Nations Chiefs meeting in Windsor to discuss Jay Treaty

• June 28, 2022 - ArriveCan app could have use beyond pandemic, public safety minister says

• April 14, 2022 - Jay Treaty Border Alliance on KahnawakeTV

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2019

• June 25, 2019 - Central Council Tinglit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska 2nd Quarter 2019 Tribal 

• January 29, 2019 - Tribes Seek Practical Border Solutions That Respect Culture, Religion & Family

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2018

• July 29, 2018 - Northern Tribal Border Alliance takes border issues to DC

• July 27, 2018 - North Tribal Border Alliance Wraps Up Washington, D.C. Fly-In 

• July 27, 2018 - Kilmer, Stefanik Introduce Bill to End Blood Quantum Discrimination Against Native Americans in Border Law

• July 25, 2018 - Northern Tribal Border Alliance Wraps Up Washington, D.C. Fly-In

• May 8, 2018 - Chiefs Attending Northern Tribal Border Alliance Summit 

• May 17, 2018 - U.S., Canadian First Nations Gather to Advocate for their Treaty Border Rights

• May 3, 2018 - Second Northern Tribal Border Summit Comes to a Close

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2017

• July 26, 2017 - Tribes team up to address northern border issues at a conference in August 

• July 13, 2017 - Indian Nations Near U.S.-Canada Border To Meet In Shakopee 

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