Paul Woitowitsch has lived in his Richmond home for about 30 years.

The 88-year-old’s home is one within the 5.7 square kilometres of urban lands within the City of Richmond that the Quw’utsun Nation, or Cowichan Nation , “established Aboriginal title” in a landmark court ruling .

Since the ruling was announced, there has been a lot of confusion about the case and what it means for residents who hold private property.

“We don’t get the full impact of what’s really happening,” Woitowitsch said.

“How serious. Yeah, and I was at the meeting and, yeah, we found out some things and some not, yeah. There was a lot of anger flying around.”

Debate over the ruling was reignited earlier this month after the City of Richmond sent a letter to a group of 150 property owners in the land cl

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