Photo published in The Tyee | December 13, 2012 | Circulation: 340,000 unique monthly readers

“It goes back millennia.” Ernie Crey, advisor to the Stó:lō Tribal Council, says talk between Yale and Stó:lō ultimately will settle what treaty won’t. Photo: David P. Ball.
Under the leadership of Joseph Trutch who later became lieutenant governor of B.C. in 1871, the new province adopted its own land settlement policy, and it left no room for treaty negotiations.