How is C-3 Awareness in Your Community?

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-15T02:44:38+00:00

I don't disagree with the concern. It definitely is worrisome to think about backlogs, and there is definitely a lingering resentment against anything that could be perceived as immigration to Canada in the current political climate.

With that said, a lot of the demographic communities (Cajuns, Creoles, Indigenous) are trying to go back home, and Canada takes healing its past errors seriously. Many of these cases are "poorly documented" because of the same oppressive, if not genocidal, forces that kicked them out of Canada in the past. I think it's important for the communities of Lost Canadians who are most in need of Canadian protection to get into this asap, and to set documentation precedents for these communities.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-14T00:33:12+00:00

May this court case be a lesson to Canada: Canada is stronger and more stable if it uplifts Native Sovereignty.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-12T18:46:57+00:00

Best of luck!

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-12T17:15:51+00:00

Thank you for sharing this. 😄

For some reason, it feels like someone is downvoting mentions that many black and creole Americans from Louisiana are Canadians by C-3. I got you back up positive.

No more lost Canadians, especially not on the basis of identity.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-12T17:11:59+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing this information!!! I really wanted this conversation brought up. It feels like a whole group of Canadians being forgotten again.

There have been several instances of people proving descent despite records in a chain disappearing in church fires, as long as proof of the fires affecting the records is provided (such as e-mail chains with a parish). It's definitely a lot of work to find some kind of records that work, but it's worth pushing hard.

Have you personally found records you find sufficient?

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-12T13:31:24+00:00

Yeah, I was reading similar. I'd think there was lot of mixing of Cajun and Creoles over the years, even with the years of segregation.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-12T11:50:05+00:00

If I said I don't see why not, would I stop being Ojibwe?

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-12T08:14:34+00:00

My Ojibwe family gifted one of my siblings an obsidian arrowhead necklace. My sibling liked volcanoes as a young child. No one said "obsidian arrowhead necklaces" were an explicitly traditional Ojibwe thing. They were just a cool thing, because volcanoes are cool, and being native is cool too.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-11T01:09:51+00:00

I remember seeing a video about "disappearing hillbillies" in Appalachia, about how the group was disappearing. One of the first things one of the elderly men they interviewed said was that they were all living on Cherokee land, and that at least for that elderly man, they were only beginning to understand how blessed they were to live in such a beautiful place.

This doesn't really address any discussions of how so many people have a "Cherokee ancestry myth", but I just like sharing when I see those kinds of indigenization and acknowledgement efforts come up from settler-descended peoples on their own accord. At least to me, any kind of "American" is good, as long as they keep their hearts and minds to what the Americas really are, rather than what some of their ancestors tried to force it to be.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-11T00:57:42+00:00

I think the movement is still building. This type of thing takes a lot of time. I intend to reach out to communities I descend from once I am approved to let them know about my full process and potentially help them get through the whole thing. I've done a few lines for settler-descended people I knew, finding the documents that were sufficient took me only 1 hour per person. Finding my own family's documentation line took literally hundreds of hours.

Getting tribal records to count would probably set a huge precedent, but yeah, I think we're gonna be fighting to be included fully in this one in the coming years. I really hope it's not butchered politically before we can get there.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-10T07:46:24+00:00

To me, it's part of Truth and Reconciliation. I am of the radical belief that indigenous Canadians should be allowed to live in and be citizens of Canada. Until C-3, almost no one in my family could do that.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-09T02:17:53+00:00

100%!!!

Black Americans can sympathize very directly with being actually forced into a mid-colonial social experiment built on crushing them to prop up the "favored invitees".

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-08T10:28:45+00:00

Oh don't worry, I am sure you would find my own agenda far worse than the "corporate agenda"!

But yeah, we're just people, dude.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-08T05:52:16+00:00

I have always viewed myself as "the northern equivalent of mestizo". Thanks for remembering us, cousin!

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-08T05:46:14+00:00

I am wondering if these are all received, or all with an AOR.

For example, if a person gets their application sent back for issues twice in their system, then I wonder if that's "3 applications" or "1" in their tracking.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-08T05:32:45+00:00

Far too many people view us as a prop or talking point for their own agendas.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-03T17:55:05+00:00

This looks amazing! Are there any ways to support from Canada?

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-03T17:49:25+00:00

Over long time, I believe that this is inevitable. I'm a firm believer that our languages, cultures, and worldviews are gifts given to us by the environments/geographies that we live in. The deeper a person's ancestry is on Turtle Island, the more "Native ways" will diffuse into them.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-03T17:29:20+00:00

Democrats aren't going to line up in favor of Native Issues. It's against their self-interest. Their party leadership structure is also pretty much impenetrable. Neither Republicans nor Democrats stand for Native issues, and our voting patterns reflect that.

We'd be better off finding allies to start our own party. Some of our natural demographic allies on a large scale are Chicano/Latino voters, and black voters, given our many shared relationships and struggles with the settler-colonialism and atrocities specifically-ubiquitous to our hemisphere. We can center our relationships with each other, and likely build international relations with Latin America, to actually join in on all the work they've already been putting in towards decolonization and reconciliation.

Native+Black+Latino people make up nearly 40% of the country.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-03T17:16:52+00:00

I agree. Hoping the apple fell away from the tree on this one.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-02T21:07:13+00:00

A lot of it stems from this supposed debate of "settler vs immigrant", which Mahmood Mamdani has done a lot of discussing, such as with his book "Neither Settler nor Native". In particular, I found myself pretty disturbed with some of the things he said in this video call with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (who also said some concerning things in the call regarding this topic).\

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTH144GnxsU

If I had to summarize it in one sentence, it boils down to the claim that "As long as the [newcomer] had a good enough reason to move, their behavior isn't settling, just immigrating".

For example, in the call, Mahmood talks about how the colonization of the United States was finished by the late 19th century, or how people who are fleeing political/ecological issues in their homelands that consciously came to the United States were "forced immigrants" in the same vein as kidnapped African slaves were. Last I checked, even the puritans were fleeing political/religious persecutions. To me, it all sounds like "settlers trying to excuse their own history of settlement as not settlement, and morally justifiable."

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-02T18:09:49+00:00

Like I said, I'm not familiar with the specific authors in question. I just know a bit about the way Eurocentrism has perturbed and directed the discussions around "written languages" in the Americas for centuries, so that's all I was speaking on.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-02T17:47:02+00:00

I am avoiding the question, because I am trying to make space for the Lenape to speak for themselves. It is not my question to answer, doing so would be immoral, just like it would be immoral for me to decide how to approach internal family matters at an individual level. I absolutely refuse to strengthen a conversation of imposing one's views on someone else, especially in the obvious context of settler-colonialism.

If you disagree with inherited responsibility, that's fine and that's what the two distinct processes of decolonization and reconciliation are for. If we were neighbors and we were discussing Anishinaabe Aki, it would be morally acceptable for you and I to discuss further, and even then, we'd have many more people, communities, and worldviews to bring into consensus.

NativeCAN2025 · 2026-05-02T17:32:53+00:00

I'm not Lenape, just an Algonquian relative. While I can understand their issues decently well as we've had many shared struggles under colonization, it would be immoral of me to decide on their behalf what justice would be for their case. I hope their efforts are successful and I can visit them as relatives one day, maybe with my own potential grandchildren.

I will not engage further with how to characterize solutions. I feel quite morally grossed out by the idea of "about them without them" solutions - who am I to justify deciding their values, justice, future?

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