Exploring Theme: "Land Back Movement"

First Peoples Law Report By Kate Gunn and Tyler SwanChippewas of Saugeen First Nation v. Town of South Bruce Peninsula et al., 2023 ONSC 2056  What it’s about   The Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that lands promised to the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation under Treaty 72 should be returned to the First Nation as...

First Nations aren’t able to simply accept land as a gift, says lawyer CBC News: When Tara Martin was a little girl, she and her mother would launch a tin rowboat from Salt Spring Island, where they lived, and row between the many islands that dot the Salish Sea to go fishing.  She remembers looking at a...