One thing that is important to understand with respect to Indigenous Land Claims in BC is that there were no treaties negotiated in 95% of BC. These decisions will have impact within that province, but should not change the agreement honored in Treaty 7 for example.
These are not snap decisions. They have been a long time coming and had several years to move into action. While settlement began in that part of the world 140 years ago, the majority of displacement occurred 80-100 years ago, and Indigenous peoples have only been offered full access to the legal system since 1951. It took them then 20 years for Calder v. British Columbia 1971 to acknowledged that Indigenous title was a legal right derived from Indigenous peoples’ historic occupation of territory. This isn't digging up bones that have been laid to rest. The corpse has hardly started to rot
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