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Originally Posted by Great68
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The issue is that this land was never ceded to her majesty the queen, so it doesn't belong to her.
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It wasn't, no. But the issue is who has authority over the territory?
Elected council? Under the Indian Act, yes.
But if we were to recognize UNDRIP, which i believe this provincial government has stated, hereditary chiefs and wetsuwetten law predate the Indian Act.
Like so many areas of diplomacy that make up Canada and our culture, there seems to be a lot of grey area.