Dehcho Assembly rejects government land offer – Northern Journal

June 29, 2015

In a unanimous vote last Friday, members of the annual Dehcho Assembly in Fort Simpson decided to reject the GNWT’s unchanging land claim offer and sit tight for what they hope will be a new federal and territorial government this fall.

“We had a lot of people comment on where do we go from here, and people just outrightly rejected the territorial government’s most recent offer, because there hasn’t been any movement on that,” said Herb Norwegian, grand chief of the Dehcho First Nations (DFN).
Members of DFN met in Fort Simpson last week for three days to discuss the status of their land claim negotiations with Canada and the GNWT, which have been plagued by a lack of movement since January when the territorial government presented its first and final offer, from which it has not budged.

“There’s been quite a bit of talk about getting the territorial government back at the negotiating table and, now again, they’re telling us that we should be telling them what is our position,” Norwegian told the Journal on Friday afternoon. “So the assembly just went out and basically said to reject that offer.”

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