Aug 3 In 1977, the Canadian government rejected aboriginal demands for their own political territory in the Northwest Territories. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said Ottawa would never agree to a political territory based solely on race. In 2010, the Manitoba government apologized for its part in removing members of the Sayisi Dene band in 1956 from their north-central homeland and relocating them to a Churchill community where they were unable to pursue their traditional lifestyle. Aug 4 In 1998, the Nisga’a First Nation signed a historic treaty with the federal and B.C. governments. The treaty gave them exclusive rights to resources in the 2,000-square kilometre area along the Nass River in B.C., a cash settlement and a self-designed system of government. In 2010, 20 first-degree murder charges against serial killer…
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