I have been saying the same thing.

Even Webequie is 75 kilometers distant. Before the modern transportation methods, like skidoos, I doubt many of them set foot in the present Ring during any year and perhaps life time.

Where they get the idea is the treaty signed about 100 years ago where a large portion of northern Ontario was ceeded to them.

Where I argue is that they were not given outright ownership but recognition of sustainability from said land. That means take wood, animals and what ever was needed at that time to sustain their way of life.

That did not mean ownership per European standards and surely not the minerals at depth. No, because I believe no one even thought of that when signing.

But that aside, in this time they need to be fully integrated into the Canadian community.

And they are not nations by any means. At best tribes. And those near the Ring mere villages.

This according to Ed, a European immigrant.