A bilingual sign welcomes visitors to Pikwàkanagàn, an Algonquin community roughly 140 kilometres west of downtown Ottawa, on July 12, 2023.
Federal officials warned Ontario Algonquin leaders not to “usurp” their own organization’s modern treaty talks, amid a pause in the potentially billion-dollar negotiations, a concern Algonquin members call contradictory and colonial.A bilingual sign welcomes visitors to Pikwakanagan, an Algonquin community roughly 150 kilometres west of Ottawa in July 2023.
"They still maintain a paternalistic view that we do not know how or cannot competently constitute ourselves, and reconstitute ourselves, as nations." "It is accurate to say that the Algonquin side is exploring ways to reorganize our negotiation team, and the purpose behind that is to enhance the prospect of finalizing a treaty successfully," he said.A map of the Algonquin land claim area shows the claimed territory in Ontario stretching from North Bay in the northwest to Hawkesbury in the east, a region encompassing roughly 36,000 square kilometres and 1.2 million people.
That means the Crown had a hand in AOO's creation, Coburn said, and the memo says Canada and Ontario remain "confident" AOO's communities will meet the legal tests for Indigenous rights.
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