REGINA—Indigenous leaders are celebrating a court ruling that says First Nations hunters from outside Saskatchewan have a constitutional right to hunt in the province and don’t require a licence. The ruling was made after a group of hunters from the Six Nations reserve in Ontario was charged with unlawful hunting offences in October 2018 and October 2017. The Crown argued that First Nations living in Saskatchewan and within the boundaries of treaties 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 can hunt anywhere in the province. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWProsecutors questioned why the province would have agreed to extend treaty hunting rights to First Nations living outside of Saskatchewan, and the agreement didn’t intend to open it up more broadly. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWYOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations Chief Bobby Cameron said the ruling reaffirms that the treaty right to hunt knows no provincial boundaries.

Source: thestar August 02, 2019 01:07 UTC