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DELGAM UUKW APPEAL COURT CASE
June 25, 1993
FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE
TABLE SET
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VANCOUVER -- For the past 13 months the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs kept seats open at the negotiating table for the federal and provincial governments.
Now those seats might finally be filled.
That's because a special five-member panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled today that the federal government's policy of extinguishment is against the law.
...But now, the five-member appeal court panel said, in a unanimous ruling, aboriginal rights were not extinguished before or after confederation and that they are protected by the Constitution...
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