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B.C. court quashes land claim ruling

By Greg Joyce
Canadian Press

VANCOUVER - Native groups won a partial victory Friday when British Columbia's highest court ruled the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en First Nations have some rights to a vast parcel of land in the northern part of the province.

The B.C. Court of Appeal overturned portions of a 1991 ruling by the B.C. Supreme Court, which said aboriginal title to the area was lawfully extinguished during colonial times before B.C. entered Confederation in 1871...

Legal experts were predicting that, regardless of the outcome of Friday's ruling, the case would wind up in the Supreme Court of Canada...

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