Saturday Oct 11, 2014 - ...of the Supreme Court’s nine justices, none are aboriginal or have a specialty in law relating to First Nations. Nothing new in this. The British North America Act (BNA) saw a pact between two founding peoples, the French and the English. The First Nations were viewed in territorial terms, not as founding people. The Constitution Act, 1867 provides that the federal government has the legislative jurisdiction for “Indians and lands reserved for the Indians.” In other words an apartheid system where the natives were to be corralled on faraway reserves on poor agricultural land and administered by the non-natives. The Métis were left out of the deal except for land grants of script of which most were cheated by unscrupulous land agents.
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