GCT3 & MNO remain at odds over treaty claims

Grand Council Treaty #3 and the Métis Nation of Ontario are continuing to quarrel over their apparent rights to the Northwest Angle Treaty.

Also known as Treaty No. 3, the controversy surrounds the agreement reached between the region’s Ojibwe peoples and Queen Victoria in 1873, which for decades has served as the primary governing document between the Crown and dozens of northwestern Ontario’s First Nations.

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Two years after its inception, an adhesion was negotiated that saw Métis families connected to the Rainy Lake Band reserve considered as Treaty 3 citizens, resulting in a controversy that has lived on to this day, and more specifically, GCT3’s refusal to acknowledge the MNO as a recognized signatory.

The dispute first came to a head in 2017, when the federal gov