Indigenous claims on Canadian airspace could be coming next – The Hub

April 8, 2026

The only certainty in B.C.’s ongoing land claims dispute story is that uncertainty reigns. First Nations groups are asserting a right to what they claim is ancestral territory, private property owners fret about how ironclad their fee simple titles really are, and the provincial government equivocates, offering plenty of platitudes to both sides but little in the way of consistent messaging.

And yet things could get even murkier still.

Back in December, Rob Shaw of Business in Vancouver reported that the Gitxsan house of Wilps ‘Wii K’aax, located near Burns Lake, had told a helicopter business and provincial forestry workers that they could not operate within, or above, their claimed territory without their “free, prior, and informed consent” and that doing so was “dangerous.” Failure to comply would allegedly be “subject to follow-up” under their own authority.

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