Gordon First Nation [Treaty land entitlement]

Gordon IR 86, contains 14,438 hectares of land and is located 61 kilometres northwest of Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan. The total band population is 2,906, of whom 1,000 live on reserve. This Cree/Saulteaux First Nation adhered to Treaty 4 in 1874.

Research has determined that these people did not receive the reserve land to which they were entitled according to the formula set out in the treaty. This claim alleges that the First Nation received a shortfall of reserve land pursuant to the terms of Treaty 4. In March 2004, for the purposes of negotiation – and under the 1998 Historic Treaty Land Entitlement Shortfall

Policy – Canada accepted that the Gordon First Nation had sufficiently established a breach of obligation and a shortfall of 5,376 acres of land.

The ICC has acted as facilitator of the negotiations from their beginning, including at the Treaty Land Entitlement Common Table of Sturgeon Lake, Gordon, Muskoday and Pasqua First Nations, which wound up in December 2004. By the end of this fiscal year, the parties had come to agreement on most of the issues and plans were being made for a community vote on the settlement.