Examples of Treaty 8 in a sentence
The actual holding in Badger was that the Alberta licensing regime sought to be imposed on all aboriginal hunters within the Alberta portion of Treaty 8 lands infringed Treaty 8, even though the treaty right was expressly made subject to “regulations as may from time to time be made by the government”.
Acknowledgement that today’s Board Meeting is being held within the traditional territory of the Dane Zaa and Treaty 8.
Respondents and Attorney General for Saskatchewan, Attorney General of Alberta, Big Island Lake Cree Nation, Lesser Slave Lake Indian Regional Council, Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, Treaty 8 Tribal Association, BlueberryRiver First Nations and Assembly of First Nations Interveners Indexed as: Mikisew Cree First Nation v.
Under Treaty 8, the First Nation treaty rights to hunt, fish and trap are therefore limited not only by geographical limits and specific forms of government regulation, but also by the Crown’s right to take up lands under the treaty, subject to its duty to consult and, if appropriate, to accommodate the concerns of the First Nation affected.
The Mikisew Reserve is located within Treaty 8 in what is now Wood Buffalo National Park.
Under Treaty 8, made in 1899, the First Nations who lived in the area surrendered to the Crown 840,000 square kilometres of what is now northern Alberta, northeastern British Columbia, northwestern Saskatchewan and the southern portion of the Northwest Territories, an area whose size dwarfs France, exceeds Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta and approaches the size of British Columbia.
The government’s approach, rather than advancing the process of reconciliation between the Crown and the Treaty 8 First Nations, undermined it.
Treaty 8 therefore gives rise to Mikisew procedural rights (e.g. consultation) as well as substantive rights (e.g. hunting, fishing and trapping rights).
Unfortunately, many First Nations do not trust the Crown to fully balance their treaty rights against the economic benefits of further development; a recent example being the Treaty 8 First Nations affected by the potential development of the Site C dam in the Peace River Valley.22 In the Supreme Court Case of Tsilhqot’in Nation vs.
Each member of those First Nations is a descendant from the original signatories to Treaty 8, or adherents thereto.