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

Starr Gauthier, a caribou guardian from the Saulteau First Nations, one of the five groups involved in the land claim dispute. Photograph: Jesse Winter/Reuters

Canada has agreed to pay C$800m (US$600m) to settle a land claims dispute with five First Nations, an acknowledgment 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.