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Jan 24, 2020 · Under Wet’suwet’en law, authority over the nation’s 22,000 square kilometres of unceded territory lies with hereditary chiefs from five clans, who oppose the pipeline. However, there are also five elected band councils created by Canada’s colonial Indian Act, and some of the councils have supported the project.
- Emilee Gilpin
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- Emma McIntosh
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May 20, 2021 · Acknowledgments raise concerns about the ramifications of Canada’s colonial history, which regularly featured Indigenous groups “ceding,” or giving up, their traditional territories to settlers.
- Aboriginal Title and The Crown
- Government Indifference
- Land Claims to #Landback
First Nation leaders aimed to reform the comprehensive land claims policy. The policy provides the only negotiating framework for Indigenous Peoples to resolve their outstanding territorial land claims with the Crown. As a result of the Delgamuukwdecision, Indigenous leaders argued the policy no longer aligned with Canadian law because it required ...
By the time Delgamuukw reached the courts, the struggle was long underway to reform the comprehensive claims policy. When the Liberals came to power under Jean Chrétien in 1993, the party’s Red Bookcommitted to an independent claims commission to address the government’s conflict of interest in the resolution of claims. But in 1996, Assembly of Fir...
The struggle over the land claims policy following Delgamuukw is a crucial chapter in the #LandBack movement. And it forecast the possibilities for land reclamation and decolonization moving forward. Grassroots movements brought the issue back to national attention as part of the Idle No More movement. In its wake, two senior oversight committees (...
- Shiri Pasternak
Ninety-five percent of British Columbia, including Vancouver, is on unceded traditional First Nations territory. Unceded means that First Nations people never ceded or legally signed away their lands to the Crown or to Canada.
- Kory Wilson
- Victoria, BC
- 2018
Dec 3, 2019 · Take the Trudeau government's response to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's finding that chronic underfunding and the Kafkaesque regulations of child welfare agencies disrupted and shattered...
Sep 1, 2021 · Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau stood at a podium on Wednesday and unveiled the promises he says he’d achieve for Canada if re-elected as prime minister. He was announcing the Liberal Party’s...
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Indigenous peoples in Canada demand to have their land rights and their Aboriginal titles respected by the Canadian government. These outstanding land claims are some of the main political issues facing Indigenous peoples today.
