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Collective rights of First Nations people

Collective rights of First Nations people. Royal Proclamation and Numbered Treaties. Aboriginal rights are those rights which peoples have due to traditional use and occupancy of land. These rights encompass all aspects of life, including culture, land and traditions.

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Collective rights of First Nations people

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  1. Collective rights of First Nations people Royal Proclamation and Numbered Treaties

  2. Aboriginal rights are those rights which peoples have due to traditional use and occupancy of land. These rights encompass all aspects of life, including culture, land and traditions.

  3. A serious confrontation Aboriginal peoples have struggled throughout Canada's history for recognition of their Aboriginal and treaty rights. In many cases, federal and provincial governments and Canadian courts have been unreceptive to Aboriginal claims.

  4. Royal Proclamation • The Royal Proclamation of 1763 officially recognized that the native peoples has the rights to their ancestral lands and that government representatives are the protector of this right

  5. The Royal Proclamation guaranteed: 1. Indian hunting grounds would be preserved (until treaties were signed); 2. The British Monarch held exclusive rights to enter into negotiations with Indian peoples;

  6. British Perspective • British “gave” Aboriginal people a great chunk of land because they couldn't protect it • They also did it to make sure that the Aboriginal wouldn't fight against them • They thought that this was temporary and that the land would eventually be theirs when Immigration would increase.

  7. Aboriginal Perspectives • The land is not a right that can be given or removed. This is a legacy from the Creator not a commodity. It is every part of their culture. • The Royal Proclamation was a nation-to-nation agreement and therefore the government must accept that it is binding.

  8. "Teach your children what we have taught our children, that theearth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sonsand daughters of the earth. We do not weave the web of life; we aremerely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves." Chief Seattle of the West Coast Duwamish, 1854

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