The exercise of soft power through diplomacy was therefore considered a more desirable solution than to allow for the potential of further conflict. He further prohibited any private person from directly buying Indigenous lands.
Instead, he reserved right of purchase for himself and his heirs alone. The proclamation set out a process whereby an Indigenous nation, if they freely chose, could sell their lands to representatives of the British monarch. This could only take place at some public meeting called especially for the purpose.
This established the constitutional basis for the future negotiation of Indigenous treaties in British North America. It made the British Crown an essential agent in the transfer of Indigenous lands to colonial settlers.
The first systematic attempts to enforce the treaty-making provisions of the Royal Proclamation took place in the regions north of the Great Lakes , which became Upper Canada in Canadian government officials recognized that the Indigenous peoples of the newly annexed western territory had the same rights to their ancestral lands as eastern First Nations did to their own. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, eleven numbered treaties were negotiated in the Prairie provinces, northeastern British Columbia , northern and northwestern Ontario , and the western part of the Northwest Territories.
They all followed the principles outlined in the Royal Proclamation of The Royal Proclamation tends to be closely scrutinized whenever there is cause to examine the legal character of Indigenous land title. For example, the St. Catharines Milling case of was used to settle a constitutional dispute between the governments of Ontario and Canada.
During the case, lawyers for the Ontario government argued that the Royal Proclamation was of no force in the legal expression of Aboriginal rights. However, in , Supreme Court judge Emmett Hall expressed quite a different view of the proclamation.
The Americans, who looked at the new land as an opportunity for settlement without the interference of the British government, resented the terms of the proclamation. And We do further strictly enjoin and require all Persons whatever, who have either wilfully or inadvertently seated themselves upon any Lands within the Countries above described, or upon any other Lands, which, not having been ceded to, or purchased by Us, are still reserved to the said Indians as aforesaid, forthwith to remove themselves from such Settlements.
The Royal Proclamation is a document that set out guidelines for European settlement of Aboriginal territories in what is now North America. However, the Royal Proclamation explicitly states that Aboriginal title has existed and continues to exist, and that all land would be considered Aboriginal land until ceded by treaty. The Proclamation forbade settlers from claiming land from the Aboriginal occupants, unless it has been first bought by the Crown and then sold to the settlers.
Most Indigenous and legal scholars recognize the Royal Proclamation as an important first step toward the recognition of existing Aboriginal rights and title , including the right to self-determination. For example, treaty-making typically involved presence of both parties — the First Nation and the government, for there to be some form of consent between the two, and for the First Nation to be compensated for any lands or resources taken.
However, the Royal Proclamation was designed and written by British colonists without Aboriginal input, and clearly establishes a monopoly over Aboriginal lands by the British Crown. Some argue that the Royal Proclamation is still valid in Canada, since no law has overruled it.
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