Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

By Sheilla Jones

Modernized Annuity Working Group

March 27, 2025

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IN BRIEF

Our submission explains the investigation and recommendations our team has made to empower Canada’s grassroots Indigenous people through modernizing the Treaty annuities paid directly to Canada’s First Nations Treaty people beginning in 1850. We explain how our work is informing action in Canada, and how it can help inform reparations and reconciliation discussions in the CANZUS  states of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA.

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