Canada signs $1.3 billion land claim settlement agreement with Siksika First Nation | FULL

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed on Thursday a $1.3 billion historic land settlement agreement with Siksika First Nation Chief Ouray Crowfoot.

The federal government said the settlement dates back more than a century when Canada broke its Blackfoot Treaty promise and took almost half of Siksika Nation’s reserve land, including some of its agricultural lands, to sell to people who settled in the area.

“Today is about recognizing terrible injustice of the past where almost half of Siksika land was taken from them shortly after having been promised a partnership and a relationship that would be very, very different,” Trudeau said.

Chief Crowfoot said the settlement doesn’t make up for past wrongs, but it will make a difference in people’s lives.

“Canada needs to stop using the word reconciliation. You will never reconcile, you will never make it whole,” he said.

Siksika’s website says each member of the First Nation is to receive $20,000 in July as part of the settlement.

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