How BC’s 150-Year Treaty Gap Created Overlapping Land Claims

British Columbia’s overlapping Indigenous land claims are the product of a 150-year treaty vacuum that governments are only now trying to fill, and the result is a province where roughly 80% of the land is still subject to Indigenous claims and major territories overlap. After the Colony of Vancouver Island was established in 1849, governor […] The post How BC’s 150-Year Treaty Gap Created Overlapping Land Claims appeared first on the deep dive.