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B.C. chiefs take landmark case to top court
JACK AUBRY
Southern Newspapers
Ottawa—Hereditary chiefs from British Columbia are taking their lengthy, expensive fight for aboriginal rights to the country’s top court today in what has been called the most important land claims case in Canadian history.
The landmark case involves the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en bands of northern BC.
“At stake is the legal, and ultimately political foundation of the existence of First Nations in British Columbia,” says Grand Chief Ed John, a prominent aboriginal leader in BC.
The case is back in court for two days of arguments after negotiations broke down between the federal and provincial governments and the Gitksan negotiators in 1996. The chiefs want ownership of public property plus forestry, fishing, mining and water rights...
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