Court Proceedings
The proceedings were started in 1984 by the Gitksan and the Wet'suwet'en Nation. They bypassed the slow Federal Land Claims process in which the British Columbia Provincial Government would not participate.
They claimed ownership and legal jurisdiction over 133 individual hereditary territories, a total of 58,000 square kilometres of northwestern British Columbia, an area larger than the province of Nova Scotia.
The Gitksan and Witsuwit'en used their oral histories as principal evidence in the case.
Read more about this topic: Delgamuukw V. British Columbia
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