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Originally Posted by Delgar
There were also those 11 or so treaties signed by Canada which treated various tribes as distinct sovereign entities. Thats a huge issue that is not against but adds to the good point you make here. The SCC is holding Canada to those treaties, although they seem to be hurting each party to them in the long term.
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And the indigenous partners - particularly Treaty 7 - were only able to coalesce the various geographically and cultural disparate tribes together into an effective bargaining unit through the use of force.