Summary:
Anchor: Native people in British Columbia are claiming victory tonight in an important land claims ruling. BC’s highest court has ruled they have some rights to a giant area of land in the northern part of the province…
Reporter: The Gitxsan and Wet'suwet'en won some and lost some…that aboriginal rights were not all extinguished prior to 1871. What they didn’t win was an outright declaration that they own this land in northern British Columbia…Earl Muldoe, the hereditary chief whose Gitxsan name of Delgamuukw has been given to the case, says that even though a partial victory it’s still an important one.
Delgamuukw (Earl Muldoe): If you take a bucket of water out of the Skeena River,
the Skeena keeps on flowing. Our rights still flow, and they will flow forever.