the struggle.”

°1954, the Nisga’a grew tired of
fighting with commercial fisher-
men over the Nass River fishery,
and they revived the land question.
Frank Calder, later to become the
first native MLA in B.C. and a
permanent fixture in the curriculum

_of every law school in the country,

was appointed president of the
Land Committee, which later
became the Nisga’a Tribal Council.
"We were young then, just out of
our teens," McKay recalled, look-
ing around the room at tribal coun-
cil members, among them the
white-haired visages of Calder and
Rod Robinson.

#1956, a promising young lawyer
named Tom Berger, later to
become a justice of the Supreme
Court and man associated with
breaking legal ground in native law
cases across the country, told the
Nisga’a that their rights to the land
could not be outlawed. The tribal
council took the question to the

‘Supreme Court of B.C, lost,

appealed, lost the appeal, and then
took the question to the Supreme
Court of Canada. The decision was
3-3, but the case was overturned in
1973 on a technicality.

- #1976, the First tripartite agreement

‘for comprehensive negotiations

was struck. Before negotiations

began, B.C. pulled out. Negoti-

ations went on with the federal
“. government. "We went through six
’ “ministers. Every time we got
‘ somewhere, they changed
- ministers."
- ©1989, the framework agreement
- with the federal government, con-

taining provisions for the entry of

BAC. into the negotiations.

#1990, "The province finally woke
up."
In the press conference earlier
Alvin McKay also harked back to
the history of the land question,
saying, "In our minds today is a

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parade of great people who gave
up their lives to pursue this cause.
For 130 years we have been sub-
ject to the Indian Act, to the Indian
Affairs administration of our lives.
It is not a pretty story, with ir-
reparable damage done to our
lives.”

Going forward to the day’s
events, McKay said, "We see this
building process as very exciting.
Parents know that if they commit
themselves completely the future
of their children will be totally
different."

Weisgerber said, “It is entirely
appropriate to start with the
Nisga’a. They are persistent, dili-
gent, they followed the processes,
took the route of law." Negoti-
ations with other native groups on
their comprehensive land claims
will begin when the native deter-
mine what kinds of groups will be
empowered to negotiate, and the
structure of those groups. "It will

be up to the Indians," he said. "I

think it would be extremely pre-
sumptuous of the province to tell
them how to form their negotiating
groups."

Weisgerber also confirmed that
he had been told by federal
government officials that Canada
has altered its policy of negotiating
only one B.C. comprehensive
claim at a time. When asked how
many claims may be taken on at

once by the two governments,

Weisgerber said that will depend
on the negotiating resources avail-
able and the size of the native
groups. The meeting that was to
have taken place Sept. 27 between
the provincial government and a
large cross-section of B.C. native
representatives has been
rescheduled for Oct, 24, and Weis-
gerber said he hopes to have a
clearer idea of what will happen
after that meeting.

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