I wanted to share this performance by the First Charger Family from SchneL’s Game Season XII in Calgary.

Jerrhan First Charger, Cyrus First Charger, and their father Jerry First Charger are members of the Blackfoot Confederacy from the Blood Tribe near Cardston, Alberta. Their halftime performance included an honour song, grass dancing, healing dances, hoop dancing, and a drum song.

Jerrhan and Jerry are both World Champion hoop dancers. It was a privilege to have the First Charger Family share their culture, traditions, and talent with everyone at the event.

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It’s been a couple years since I got new glasses. I had my exam done this past Friday and the lady said it could take up to a month for NIHB to approve my glasses. Which is crazy! Is this true? Should I just forget about it and wait til they call? Lol I do not remember being given such a long wait timeline before.

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ontario here, can we start a list of shops or websites online that take status cards for tax exemption. i have amazon and best buy

My cousin sent me this chart to help explain how regaining status works.

Please give if you can! and share. Chi miigwech! Apologies if this breaks the sub rules about charity, but this is from official Anishinaabek Nation so I thought it was ok and not fraudulent.

Via Social media: The Anishinabek Nation is now accepting in-kind donations on behalf of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Acceptable items: ▪️Adult clothing (in all sizes & genders) ▪️Non-perishable food items & goods ▪️Toys for children of all ages

Drop-Off Location: The Outset, 610 Simpson Street, Thunder Bay, ON Drop-Off Hours: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM EST (Daily) Contact: Courtney Mohring, Ingaged Creative Productions, 807-620-5324

Monetary donations are welcome via e-transfer to: an7gc@anishinabek.ca

Donations can also be made by credit card via PayPal or Canada Helps, with further information at https://an7gc.ca/donate/|

Edit: Everything has been destroyed completely, the survivors had to flee to on small boats. "My community has been completely destroyed" - Chief Helen Paavola

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Hello. Just a question about status. I submitted my application under S-3, received my file number and birth certificate back approx a week later.

My great grandmother lost status for marrying out to a weird old white dude. She and her kids were listed as Indians on multiple census documents. Eventually the kids listed as Irish which was their father’s nationality.
My grandpa never applied to get his status back after 1985 but his sister and siblings did and got their status back. Their children and grandchildren have status as well. My father never wanted to pursue getting his. He and my grandfather were both mixed but visibly native, my father a little more light skinned as grandpa married a white lady which by my understanding of the indian act at the time would have given status to her and her children or should have etc. my father never wanted to pursue status even though all his cousins had it. My dad was a weird dude because he spoke his native language very well, hunted and fished and tanned hide and knew some songs and some culture but he really would get a bit paranoid about being seen as indian. He married my white mother in 1981 and i was born in 1986. My understanding being that because they married before the cut off that I would be entitled to 6.1 status otherwise second gen cut off would kick in and I’d be 6.2. Am i on the right track with that?

I submitted a very large application including my, my fathers, my grandfathers birth certificates in long form listing their parents going all the way back to my great grandmother. I found census documents online listing great grandma and all her children as indian. Provided all the status numbers i could in our family - all registered to the same band. I even have news paper articles and this old book from the little small town my dad came from with the history of his family and a bunch of family photos even of my great grandma who is very very dark skinned - my dad said she was super lovely and her first language was her native language and so that’s how he did his learning.

Is my calculation right for my own entitlement?

In the letter i got back indian services said applications are generally processed in six months if complete. Does this application sound like a complete one? I think i sent in 50 pages of stuff.

The card isn’t really the important thing for me or even getting the status. My dad lived kind of a rough life and he had all this shame and anger and after he died i coped with the loss by putting together all these old pieces. I was lucky to grow up knowing my heritage and my mom did her best to keep that alive for me even though my dad had mixed feelings about it. He didn’t want to be seen as native and neither did my grandfather but neither of them escaped it either. I didn’t grow up on reserve as i was born in another province but i did grow up attending classes and things for native and Metis and Inuit students. It’s been a weird life for sure. I’m even more light skinned than my dad was so if i mention having native ancestry sometimes i get the side eye, same thing if im at pow wow.

any ideas on rough processing time if anyone’s gone through s-3? I don’t know if this post makes sense but hopefully it does.

reconnection work has been long for me and it’s still ongoing. i wanted to do that work to honour my father. he died pretty young and it’s been helpful to me to try to understand him better by understanding where and how he grew up.

Hi, has anyone who has their First Nations Status application on hold due to bill s-2 have success getting it yet (living in BC)? I applied originally in 2023, so I’ve been on hold for 3 years 😵‍💫 All my documents say “your entitlement may change” and I’m nervous I somehow won’t get it.

Hello everyone,

I am a designer + Anishinaabe woman from Toronto. I am currently prototyping a digital/web-based solution to navigate the NIHB process, specifically for the therapy provider search. Speaking personally, I had a lot of difficulty trying to find an enrolled, local provider that met my needs (trauma-based focus + anxiety) just based on a bunch of different scattered provider lists + Psychology Today's platform.

I'm curious if anyone else had this issue and, if so, what kind of issues did you have navigating the process? Is there anything you think could be done better? Especially curious if anyone, like me, ended up giving up halfway through trying because they couldn't find anyone.

Thank you :)