Subsequent federal and provincial governments have applied band aids to problems, but very little long-term planning has taken place.
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Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and adviser to U.S. president Bill Clinton testified that in the 170 years since the treaties were signed, the First Nations were owed $126 billion in lost resource revenue sharing as promised in the treaties.Article content The numbered treaties, which extend from the lakehead to the Rocky Mountains, provided an annual annuity of $5. This amount is historical and still paid out on treaty day. The chief gets $20, the councillors $10 and the rest of us get $5.According to our elders, the treaty negotiators were asked about the use of the land and they stated that they wanted the land for agriculture.
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