SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Elsipogtog First Nation, Southwestern Energy, Treaty Day (Nova Scotia)
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Article 1: russell diabo harper launches major first nations. Termination means the ending of first nations pre-existing sovereign status through federal coercion of first nations into land. Claims and self-government final agreements that convert first. Nations into municipalities, their reserves into fee simple lands and extinguishment of their inherent, aboriginal and treaty rights. To do this harper announced 3 new policy measures: a results based approach to negotiating modern treaties and self-government agreements. This is an assessment process of 93 negotiation tables across canada to determine who will and who won"t agree to terminate inherent aboriginal and treaty rights under the terms of canada"s comprehensive claims and self-government policies. For those tables who won"t agree, negotiations will end as the federal government withdraws from the table and takes funding with them: first nation regional and national political organizations will have their core funding cut and capped.
