Elaine Miles was walking to a bus stop in Redmond to go to Target, she said, when four men wearing masks and vests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement label stepped out of two black SUVs with no front plates and pressed her for her ID.
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Federal government agencies recognize tribal ID as a valid form of identification, and Miles has used it to travel back and forth to Canada and Mexico without any issues.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Fun fact my ancestor had a contract to deliver muskets to a frontier fort for the army, half up front the other half on delivery plus a return contract. Good deal all thing considered, anyways the fort stiffed my ancestor so he fucked with the rifles so they’d have issues firing after first use. He then got into contact with the local Indigenous and Scots-Irish communities raided the bastards and my ancestor got his pay, he got his receipt of delivery before hand and the forest fire erased the fort so no one found out what he did.
Point is the Feds have always been shit for their word.