Why are treaty rights important to Native peoples in Canada? How have they fought for those rights in the 21st century?

Introduction

Native Conidian treaties are constitutionally recognized agreement between the aboriginal people and the crown . Most of these treaties describe exchanges where the aboriginals (Canadian Natives ) are to share or to give out some of their interest in their own ancestral land for reward by the crown officials in terms of various kinds of payment and promises . The native treaties are at times viewed by the aboriginal side as a sacred covenant or solemn pacts involving people that established underlying principles for the Canadian natives and the conidian immigrants . Hence treaties

between the aboriginal (Canadian natives peoples and the crown establish a moral basis and a constitutional alliance between the sovereign institutions and first people of the Canadian state

The importance of these treaties to the Canadian native

The treaties which they have made are right important to the Canadian natives because they perceive them to be sacred . The binding character and the sacredness of their treaties with the crown is not to be primarily found on the legalistic language or the signature marks which adorned the treaty documents . The sacredness of the aborigines treaties were rooted in what they referred to as the aboriginal languages (Canadian natives , at the time when they were negotiating the treaties with the crown , deliberations were usually accompanied with an exchange of some presents which were symbolically significant or by smoking a sacred pipe (Sebastien 2001

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The treaties rights are also important because through them they could run their own legislative assembly...