S01E03: What is Treaty Anyway?

Host Sharon Desnomie asks: What is treaty? And Grand Chief Steven Point answers: It’s an agreement. An agreement between nations. . .  We’ve never signed a treaty where we’ve given up our land. Yet Europeans have come. They’ve occupied our territories, they’ve taken our trees, they’ve taken our minerals. We’ve never been recognized for all that we’ve given up. A treaty will finally set us on the correct path as a nation. A nation with a treaty with the Canadian government. 

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Stó:lō Signal Season 1
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S01E03: What is Treaty Anyway?
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