The Canadian government declared the Sinixt First Nation extinct and struck it from the Indian Act in 1956. The group is still fighting today for recognition to prove that they are, indeed, living.

The Sinixt in Canada were moved in 1902 to a reserve set up along the west side of the Upper Arrow Lake for the Arrow Lakes Band. Advertisement.

In October, the Sinixt will take the unprecedented step of trying to reverse that extinction. The CBC's Bob Keating has the story from British Columbia. This segment aired on September 25, 2020.

The Sinixt did not “voluntarily and enthusiastically” choose allotments and farming over their traditional life, the provincial judge wrote; Instead, ...

The Sinixt First Nation was deemed legally extinct in 1956; a court case involving a Washington man may reverse that decision. (Sinixt Nation) ...

The Canadian government deemed them vanished in 1961. Now an archaeologist, working with their descendants, studies how the Indians might have used their ancient land.

The Sinixt, also known as the Arrow Lakes Band, are one of the 12 Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Their traditional territory, ...

In many ways, their work has just begun. It has been over three years since the case was decided, and one year since the Sinixt Confederacy, as the Sinixt people have named their branch in Canada ...

The Sinixt people fight for their legal right to exist in their homelands of Canada. In 1956 the Canadian government unjustly declared the Sinixt people extinct in Canada. Cutting them off nearly ...

As climate chaos rises, Michelle Week, draws on her Sinixt indigenous knowledge As climate chaos increases around the world, Michelle Week, a farmer outside of Portland Oregon is drawing on her ...

The Sinixt say they lived in the north-south valley stretching from present-day Kettle Falls, Wash., to Revelstoke, B.C., well into the 1700s.

The Sinixt people have helped hold a Canadian company, Teck Metals, responsible for pollution of the Columbia and are among those restoring salmon in their historical habitat.