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Thank you, Ms. Gabriel, for being our first witness in what I think is an historic study on land back.
I can't help but reflect that I was 10 years old during the Oka crisis, where land was of dispute. That got national recognition.
To be a Mi'kmaq member of Parliament 33 years later asking a Haudenosaunee questions around land and restitution of land is, I think, a very great sign of the progress we have made in Canada, but there's still so much work to be done.
In starting the basis for a foundation of land back, I understand that the Royal Proclamation of 1763 forbade settlers from claiming land from the aboriginal occupants unless it had been first bought by the Crown and then sold to the settlers.
To your knowledge, in your communities and in surrounding nations, was land ever purchased or ceded to nations in the pre-Confederation treaties?