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1763 AD

Royal Proclamation and Indigenous lands in North America

British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · Slavery & coerced labor · Indigenous peoples & dispossession · Law & imperial government

The Crown organized territories acquired from France and reserved western lands for Indigenous nations, requiring land cessions to be made to the Crown at public meetings. It was an imperial frontier-management instrument, yet remains a legal foundation invoked for Indigenous rights and treaties in Canada

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