B.C. First Nation’s land rights claim is about reconciliation, lawyer tells court – Toronto Star
March 21, 2022
VANCOUVER – The lead lawyer in an Indigenous rights and title lawsuit used the words of British explorer Capt. James Cook in his opening arguments to prove the Nuchatlaht Nation’s claim to its territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Jack Woodward said that when Cook encountered Nuchatlaht people in the 1770s, he wrote in his journal that he had “nowhere met with Indians who had such high notions of everything the country produced being their exclusive property as these.”
Woodward told the B.C. Supreme Court hearing on Monday that the legal action is about reconciliation between the nation and the Crown.
