Canada's First Nations have been fighting for their land rights for 150 years - with no end in sight

Indigenous protest of the “Idle No More” movement in Toronto, 2012 © Mark Blinch/Reuters

On January 6, 2025, the Swiss newspaper NZZ published an article on First Nations in Canada.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Incomindios in September 2024, foreign editor Werner J. Marti met the two Incomindios guests of honor Ron Lameman (President of the International Indian Treaty Council) and Sharon Venne (Lawyer Treaty 6) in Zurich. The two members of the Cree Nation have been fighting for the land rights of indigenous peoples at the UN and in Canada for almost 40 years.

Read the full article (in German-see PDF below) on the current political and legal situation of the First Nations in Canada with regard to their land rights as treaty partners of the British Crown and how the Canadian government is dealing with it:

First Nations kämpfen in Kanada um ihr Land – zwei Cree erklären (1)

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