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Betsiamites Band Council, Route 138 and the Betsiamites Reserve, Public Edition, July 2008
FILES CAN ONLY BE ACCESSED USING FIREFOX BROWSER. Consists of bilingual annotated index, historical documents, maps, correspondence/letters, Band Council documents and final reports relating to the Band's claims alleging that reserve lands taken for highway use were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include: Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman. [These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
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Comparative Governance Structures Among Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
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[To Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of the Dominion of Canada: From the Chiefs of the Shuswap, Okanagan and Couteau Tribes of British Columbia, Presented at Kamloops, B.C. August 25, 1910]
Text of letter protesting the misappropriation of land, failure to create treaties, and the policies of the B.C. government. Site also includes information on laws and customs, historical and political context, and timeline from 1763 to 2009.