Here's another way to "clarify" things ....
Biggest landowner in Cowichan area wants Aboriginal title case reopened, in rare move
A company that says it is the biggest private landowner in the Cowichan Tribes' Aboriginal title area in Richmond, B.C., said it will ask the British Columbia Supreme Court towww.thecanadianpressnews.ca
But that wasn't what he meant at all....
Eby says DRIPA law could be amended after First Nations win appeal in mining case
SURREY - First Nations are celebrating a British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling which found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims
conservativebc.ca
And the north coast, West Kootenays and the Island, since forever.
The West Kootenays are losing their access to the forestry roads as the province decommissions them and pull out the bridges. At the same time, they are preparing without any public consultation to cede huge tracts of land on all sides of Kootenay lake - the biggest transfer so far - to Indigenous, including New Denver, Nelson, Slocan, Castlegar, Cranbrook, Radium, Invermere and Creston including municipal and forestry governance. Indigenous and the local pot head environmentalists were also recently able to use the courts to prevent the largest alpine ski resort development in Canadian history in that area, which would have brought a lot of desperately needed year round work to people. The primary basis was the possible existence of an ancient hunting trail.
www.theglobeandmail.com
You wish.Supreme Court considers cases of overlapping Aboriginal title
One Indigenous group calls it a ‘new era’ of rights and title litigation
So the Gitanyow, the Nisga'a and the Tsetsaut/Skii km Lax Ha Nation have overlapping land claims in the area disputed also by the Metlakatla, Lax Kw'alaams, and apparently some other folks with competing elected and hereditary leaderships.
One thing sticks out for me though.
These various groups have taken their fight to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Doesn't that mean that they recognize the supremacy of the Crown over their lands?
