Trillions of dollars at stake in Six Nations long awaited land claim trial

The 1784 Haldimand Proclamation

By Barbara Latkowski Writer It was three decades in the making but Six Nations of the Grand River is finally seeing its day in court and it centres around what could be the largest Indigenous land-claim settlement in Canadian history. The court case has Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) or Six Nations of the Grand River (SNGR) pitting itself against both Ontario and the federal governments in a case that opened a week ago. The case itself hinges on what starts out as a simple question. Is the Haldimand Proclamation a treaty? Six Nations of the Grand River (SNGR) First Nation says ‘yes’. Six Nations decades long land claim opened last week in Toronto after Six Nations sued Canada and Ontario, a case that began in 1995 over sold land…

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