Canada to pay $800m to settle land dispute with five First Nations

Payment represents acknowledgement government and British Columbia have failed to honour treaty signed in 1899

Canada has agreed to pay C$800m to settle a land claims dispute with five First Nations, an acknowledgement it failed to honour a treaty signed more than a century ago – and the latest in a string of deals reshaping the relationship between government and Indigenous communities

Over the weekend, officials with both the federal and British Columbia governments admitted successive administrations had broken their promises to the Blueberry River First Nations, the Doig River First Nation, the Halfway River First Nation, the Saulteau First Nations and the West Moberly First Nations.