Trailer settlement near Yellowknife focus of land rights battle – CBC

Dec 20, 2024

Occupants argue they’re exercising a right promised by the Crown in Treaty 8

A small cluster of trailers along the Ingraham Trail near Yellowknife is the focus of a battle over Indigenous land rights.

In a case that dates back more than a decade, occupants Agnes Christensen and her son Clayton Christensen say that, as members of the Deninu Kue First Nation of Fort Resolution, N.W.T., they are simply exercising land rights the Crown agreed to when Treaty 8 was signed more than 100 years ago.

The territorial government, however, says they’re trespassing. It initiated the court case more than a decade ago in an effort to get the Christensens to vacate the land, located near the turnoff to the road to Dettah.

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