Wednesday, March 5, 2014

WL Indian Band scores major win in Land Claim Case

In a major win - the Williams Lake Indian Band won their "Specific Land Claim" ruling against Ottawa where Sugarcane says that reserve land was improperly taken from them in the late 19th century

Read more here

Ottawa has until March 31st to decide if it will appeal this ruling.  If not - it'll move to the next step where a decision on how much the Williams Lake Indian Band will be financially compensated will be made.  No exchange of lands (Crown/Private) will be involved…

~SF

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