Six Nations has waited three decades for their day in court. And it finally arrived last week. Six Nations of the Grand River is sueing Canada and Ontario for the loss of their lands and mismanagement of their trust funds. A court case valued today at between $13.9 billion and $8.7 trillion and if won could see the community of Six Nations finally able to provide for its people. For those hiding under a rock, since you would have to be to not have heard of the massive theft of Six Nation lands that makes up portions of modern day Ontario, it all centres around the 1784 Haldimand Proclamation. A treaty that saw the Crown set aside about 384,451 hectares of land along the Grand River, lands now known as…
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