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1998
For the first time in their history, the Nisga'a people sign a treaty with the governments of British Columbia and Canada settling a land claim on more than 2000 square kilometers of land. -
1999
Nunavut is created. Nunavut is a new territory in Canada with a majority Inuit population and Inuktitut and English as its official languages. Politically, Nunavut has its own legislative assembly, which has powers equivalent to those of any other federal territory, and its own Supreme Court -
2010
Canada endorses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which it had opposed since its adoption in 2007.
~ The UN published this Rights of Indigenous Peoples for Indigenous adolescents. Discover what the rights document entails by reading through the summary it presents.