After a 30-year-long battle, the Garden River First Nation near Sault Ste. Marie is finally receiving recognition that its people should have more land than they do.
In 1853, a survey was done on the First Nation, outlining its boundaries. But work done by scholars in the early 1990's revealed a mistake, as some land to the west should have been marked as Garden River land.
Ontario and Canada just offered 18.5 million dollars for the property to keep it as crown land.
The First Nation accepted, but it wasn't unanimous.
"That was a struggle for a lot of people in our community, especially our elders, because they've always been and they always taught their children and their grandchildren that we never give up our land. So that was a huge issue to deal with, because there was a lot of historical information brought forward in our negotiations," said Acting Chief Karen Bell, Garden River First Nation.
The community has not yet decided how to spend the money.
