Article: First Nations refuse but government persists.(NEWS)(Dakota Sioux )

MANITOBA

First Nations leaders across Saskatchewan and Manitoba are dismayed over the federal government's recent offer to buy out the treaty rights of Dakota Sioux in those provinces.

"Canada stated that Dakotas have no rights in Canada. We have no rights. OK, then why are they offering us $60 million to give up our Aboriginal rights? They're saying one thing, but they're doing another thing," said Frank Brown, chief of the Canupawakpa Dakota First Nation, located 30 kilometers south of Virden, Manitoba.

Last fall, the federal government offered to pay the Dakota Sioux just over $60 million if they renounced their claim to Aboriginal treaty ...

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