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Originally Posted by Makarov
Its probably worth noting that the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans would have exactly zero authority to regulate those waters (and indeed many if not all of those non-indigenous fisherman would not live in Nova Scotia) if not for the Crown entering into the treaties which guaranteed the MI'kmaq people certain perpetual fishing and hunting rights in exchange for ceding their traditional terrirtories.
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Why wouldn’t they live there? You think indigenous lands would’ve remained independently sovereign for the last 300 years?