![]() The Dakotas and Lakotas, who number about 6,000 in Canada,receive some of the same entitlements through Indian Affairs that other First Nations receive. That process has seen the transfer of cash and land to First Nations that had been historically short changed. ![]() Not being treaty Indians means the Dakotas and Lakotas weren't included in the multimillion-dollar treaty land entitlement process in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Ottawa is also rejecting the claim of the Dakota and Lakota First Nations that they should be included in the treaties that most Prairie First Nations already belong to. "It is the position of the government of Canada that the Dakota/Lakota First Nations do not have aboriginal rights in Canada," the July 25 letter from assistant deputy minister Michel Roy said. ![]() ![]() In a letter to nine bands last week, the federal Indian Affairs Department said although there is a longstandingclaim that the Dakota people once used and occupied portions of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to the extent that they have rights to the land, the government disagrees. The Canadian government has rejected claims from Dakota and Lakota First Nations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan that they have aboriginal rights to land. ![]()
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