Current Problems: Treaties and Land Claims
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April 12, 2024
Cree lawyer says cows and plows settlements don’t reflect spirit of treaty clause
‘It didn’t just mean cows, plows, agriculture. It meant livelihood,’ says Deanne Kasokeo CBC Indigenous: A Saskatchewan-based lawyer says “cows and plows” settlements do not reflect the spirit and intent of treaties from an Indigenous perspective. Under treaties 4,5,6 and 10, the Crown promised agricultural benefits — livestock and farming equipment — to the First Nations that signed. That promise...
November 24, 2023
Mi’kmaq fishers say feds aren’t listening to their concerns about safety
APTN News: In the early morning hours of April 3, 2021, the fishing vessel Tyhawk launched into the icy waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence from Chéticamp, Nova Scotia. The weather was bad. Ice was accumulating on the boat because of freezing rain. Despite this, the captain and his crew of four kept going...
November 16, 2023
Métis in N.W.T. still waiting for apology, compensation for loss of hunting rights
Canada signed a deal with First Nations in Wood Buffalo National Park but not Métis. Ken Hudson carries a moose shank from the bed of his pickup truck to a meat hook in his workshop. APTN News: However, putting country food on the table has been challenging at times. For decades, he has been tirelessly...
October 20, 2023
Community copy of Treaty 3 believed to be last in existence on display at human rights museum
Copy shows treaty ‘was about allowing access to the land, not selling the land’: elder CBC News: What is thought to be the final remaining community copy of a 150-year-old treaty that opened a gateway to what is now Western Canada is on temporary display at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. The...
September 30, 2023
How Wilfrid Laurier’s Liberals grabbed reserve lands in the Prairie west
Bill Waiser and Jennie Hansen are historians based in Saskatchewan and co-authors of Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land. The Globe and Mail: Contributed by BILL WAISER AND JENNIE HANSEN In June of last year, at Alberta’s Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood next to Chief Ouray Crowfoot and...
July 19, 2023
Chiefs continue to press feds on its land back and NRTA shortcomings
“It is a broken system and it’s something that needs to be fixed. It is probably the poorest form of getting land back to your communities and control over those.” Marc Miller, minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Black River First Nation Chief Sheldon Kent speaks about the 1930 Natural Resources Transfer Act and how jurisdiction over...
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