To help the superintendent general understand this question, Macrae had attached to his memorandum of 3 June 1901 a map showing a huge area of present-day Quebec and Ontario as unceded land. |
The proposed adhesion with Split Lake raised the possibility of a broader effort to bring the Native people in unceded territory under treaty. |
Internal correspondence confirms that the Department of Indian Affairs had discussed a treaty for the unceded districts of the Mackenzie Valley, though no decision had yet been taken on the best time to proceed. |
These unceded reserve lands still retain their Aboriginal interests. |
As Canadians look more closely, they are discovering that the unceded status of vast territories across this country is not a threat, as they've long been told. |
This promised the Indians a permanent reservation of the forty million acres of land around the Black Hills and the right to hunt buffalo in unceded territory. |