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Nisga’a launch court challenge against neighbouring Indigenous group

Conflict over territorial overlap finds its way to B.C. Supreme Court
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In this file photo, government leaders hold up copies of the Nisga’a Final Agreement which officially came into effect on May 11, 2000. The Nisga’a say a Gitanyow group is violating the treaty rights. (File photo/The Terrace Standard)

A continuing disagreement over territorial overlaps between the Nisga’a Nation and a group of Gitanyow people has surfaced in the B.C. Supreme Court.

The Nisga’a Nation is asking for an injunction ordering a group calling itself the Raven Clan Outlaws to stop activities within a portion of the Nass Wildlife Area, an area that was created through the Nisga’a Treaty of 2000.

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