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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