A Trash King Is Born

Stained glass commission for MintMelons on twitter! Been a while since I've done this style and I'm really fond of how this turned out :]

The Locked Children and the Key Mistress

Canada's highest court has upended the federal government's 65-year-old claim that an Indigenous nation from British Columbia's Interior no longer exists.

In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada said the Sinixt Nation, whose reservation is in Washington state, has constitutionally protected Indigenous rights to hunt in their ancestral territory north of the border.

The ruling means that if Indigenous groups outside of modern-day Canada can prove they descended from a pre-contact society in what is now Canada, they can claim Section 35(1) rights under the Constitution, which recognizes and affirms the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"Persons who are not Canadian citizens and who do not reside in Canada can exercise an Aboriginal right," the decision said.

The high court said the Sinixt, part of the Salish people who primarily occupied territory in the B.C. Interior and form the Lakes Tribe in northwestern United States, did not "lose" their identity by moving within their traditional territory south of the Canada-U.S. border.

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I’m not saying Lams wasn’t real - it was. They loved each other too! This doesn’t mean you can say Hamliza wasn’t real though. I’ve seen some Hamliza shippers saying that he and Laurens were just friends, but Hamilton loved Eliza AND Laurens how hard is it to understand.