Good morning AN, off to the patio for coffee?? I need it this moring.
Trucker snores etc.
You posted a top post, congrats. I have been curious on the contents of the treaty, but being a Yank in manana land, I have hesitated in prying.
Your post clearly shows that they have no 'legal' standing in their eviction notice, that only the gov't does. And, since the gov't allowed mineral staking under the treaty???
Here in Mexico, I always give the present land right owner an extra bit, it is his one chance for a small jackpot
Don Jose de La Mancha
"I exist to live, not Live to exist"
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Here is some of what Treaty 9, covering this territory, has to say. First Nations “shall have the right to pursue their usual vocations of hunting, trapping and fishing throughout the tract surrendered . . . subject to such regulations as may from time to time be made by the government of the country . . . and saving and excepting such tracts as may be required or taken up from time to time for settlement, mining, lumbering, trading or other purposes.”
Another section says “that such portions of the reserves and lands above indicated as may at any time be required for public works, buildings, railways, or roads of whatsoever nature may be appropriated for that purpose by His Majesty’s government of the Dominion of Canada, due compensation being made to the Indians for the value of improvements thereon, and an equivalent in land, money or other consideration for the area of the reserve so appropriated.”
