Chief Desmond Bull called Wednesday a “historical day” that sees Louis Bull Tribe “exercise jurisdiction over our land.”
At a news conference in Maskwacis, Alta., Chief Desmond Bull said the Louis Bull Tribe’s two-year deal with Ottawa is a bilateral agreement that does not involve Alberta’s provincial govermnment.Chief Desmond Bull and Assistant Deputy Minister for Indigenous Services Canada Catherine Lapp, sign a bilateral agreement between Louis Bull Tribe and the Government of Canada to support Bill C-92, in Maskwacis, south of Edmonton on Wednesday February 1, 2023.
Bull called Wednesday a “historical day” that sees Louis Bull Tribe “exercise jurisdiction over our land.”Report on Alberta girl’s death highlights need for overhaul of child welfare system: advocates “The Creator has given sovereignty to govern ourselves,” he said, noting he hopes the deal will “ensure those generations are brought up immersed in culture.”
In 2021, Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan became the first First Nation to sign such an agreement. Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Ontario and Peguis First Nation in Manitoba have since also signed deals with the federal government and their provincial governments. “Although this is only a two-year agreement, it gives us the base and the foundation for us to look forward to developing something stronger, something more permanent, something that will allow that bilateral agreement to continue,” Bull said.
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