RESOLUTION OF GRAND COUNCIL OF TREATY 8 NATIONS


PROPOSED BY:  Chief Pat Marcel, Ft. Chipewyan Nation

SECONDED BY:  Chief Charles Beaver, Bigstone Cree Nation


REGARDING:	The Canadian Government's use of Section 17 of the Indian Act
            to undermine the Lubicon Lake Nation and other Treaty 8 First
            Nations' jurisdiction and rights over citizenship and traditional
            Lands and Resources

WHEREAS the Treaty 8 Nations hereby gathered on this 8th day of March,
1990, strongly support the Lubicon Lake Nation and its inherent
jurisdiction to determine its own membership and to the ownership of the
Lands and Resources in its Traditional Territory; and,

WHEREAS the Canadian Government has sought to undermine the rights and
jurisdiction of the Lubicon Lake Nation by the creation of the Woodland
Cree Band; and,    

WHEREAS this oppressive action on the part of the government of Canada
contravenes the spirit and intent of Treaty 8 entered into in 1899 by
the British Crown and the sovereign Nations of Treaty #8;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Grand Council of Treaty 8 Nations condemns
the actions of Canadian government and resolves to not recognize the
Woodland Cree Band.

Passed unanimously by the Grand Council of Treaty 8 Nations at Edmonton,
Alberta, this eighth (8th) day of March, 1990