A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations John Sutton Lutz. FIVE The Tsilhqot'in You cannot spend too long in Tsilhqot'in country before you hear of the “ Chilcotin War . ” To hear local people discuss it , it might have happened a few ...
... Tsilhqot'in.41 After meeting European traders and explorers over the next fifty years , settlers began to encroach on Tsilhqot'in entitlements . When the unilateral survey and settlement of their territory commenced , they actively ...
... Tsilhqot'in people were , in principle , entitled to a declaration of Aboriginal title over the land in question . For procedural reasons , the BC Supreme Court did not formally declare Aboriginal title ( SCC 2014 , para 7 ) . The Tsilhqot ...
... Tsilhqot'in understood English ; most did not even speak the Chinook Jargon — a mélange of English , French and ... Tsilhqot'in usually put their own interests first , hunting for themselves rather than for exchange . The HBC had ...
... Tsilhqot'n Nation and Grassy Narrows First Nation In 2014, two more major cases regarding Aboriginal title were decided in the Supreme Court: Tsilhqot'in Nation v. British Columbia and Grassy Narrows First Nation v. Ontario (Natural ...
... Tsilhqot'in decision reshapes the paradigm, at least in BC, by highlighting the importance of consent when dealing with lands claimed by Aboriginal groups. Court decisions like that in Tsilhqot'in may have a broader impact through ...
... Tsilhqot'in Nation v British Columbia , [ 2014 ] 2 SCR 256 . 34 Continuity of occupation through social organization was necessary to prove Aboriginal title ; ibid at paras 45–46 , 57 . 35 Tsilhqot'in Nation v British Columbia , 2007 ...
... Tsilhqot'in Nation CA (n 69) [146]. 73. Tsilhqot'in Nation (n 16) [19]. As Kent McNeil explains, the conclusion that the Tsilhqot'in Nation was the rights-holder “was implicitly affirmed by the Court's declaration of the Tsilhqot'in ...