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	Podcast:		Access Utah
	Episode:		'Native But Foreign' With Brenden Rensink On Thursday's Access Utah
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:54:03
	Publish Date:		2019-04-04 11:24:27
	Description:		“Northern Indigenous Crees were native to Montana and the northern Plains long before the US-Canada border divided the region. But bisected by the line, Crees became asylum-seekers on their own lands 150 years ago. Though some were granted political refugee status, Crees were still denied basic rights. Instead, many were killed, ignored and deported on both sides of the border. … The Chippewa Cree story is little-known outside the tribe, but it echoes the uncertainty in the immigration crises the US faces today.” So writes Brenden Rensink, author of a new book, “Native But Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands.” In the book, Professor Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how
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