The Tla’amin Final Agreement is a recent modern treaty. The Tla’amin are Coast Salish Indigenous peoples whose territory is located on the southwest coast of British Columbia.
The Tla’amin Final Agreement came into effect in April 2016, 41 years after the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement was signed.
The agreement, which includes self-government provisions, is the 25th modern treaty in Canada, and took more than 20 years to negotiate.
Under their treaty, the Tla’amin Nation owns and manages mineral, forestry and other resources on 8,323 hectares of land (“Tla’amin Lands”), which comprise 6,405 hectares of former provincial Crown land and 1,917 hectares of former Indian reserves.