User:OldManRivers/History of land claims in British Columbia

Land claims in the Canadian province of British Columbia is a process established by the Canadian federal government to give means for Aboriginal peoples in Canada to obtain regognition of rights under their treaties or as indigenous people of what is not Canada to obtain recognition of ownership of their lands. The process dates back to the Royal Proclamation in which all western expansion and colonization had to be delt with treaties with the indigenous nations. With the number treaties established, virtually no treaties in British Columbia have been established except for the Douglas Treaties and the Nisga'a Final Agreement. The first issue of land claims was in 1906 when a delegation of mostly Coast Salish and some Interior Salish traveled to England to see King Edward. This included Skwxwu7mesh man Joe Capilano.