The Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George.
I can't seem to copy/past from the page so the link will have to do. It clearly shows how we encroached on their territory and took their land away despite a very clear cut proclamation proclaiming that only the king had such a right and that he would purchase the land. This proclamation has been instrumental in many of our laws and is absolutely still valid. It is even referenced in the constitution act of 1982.
Unless we wish to be like the early ancestors and just rob native people of their land we must pay up! Both for land we have already taken and land we may want. It is expensive but it only gets more so as we let every year slips by. Time is not going to let us dodge our obligations - or more rightly; it shouldn't.
Those who would claim they are not the ones oppressing the native people have an invalid argument. Until such time as our government starts living up to its legal and financial obligations to native people (an unconquered people too I might add) we are all exactly those oppressive SOBs that illegaly took the land in the first place.
As stated, I should point out those outside of Quebec who were granted "Native land" were by and large "natives", from a different region. Ones still given first nation status despite not being first in this nation. They then (allegedly) sold that land. If they did or not is up for debate, real estate laws were a big problem back then, one of the reasons its so heavily regulated now.
How do you deal with that flaw in the logic? How do we "pony up" to native land claims when most of the natives in "Indian Land" are immigrant Haudonausee, and most of our actual natives live in so called "ruperts land"