New Brunswick's Crown Land Policy Consulting Wulustukyet Traditional Council of Tobic To All Our Relations, The Wulustukyeg Traditional Council of Tobic (WTCT) as the traditional governing body of the Wulustukyeg Nation seeks your help, assistance, support and commitment. Our Council is in need of resources (financial, volunteer, expertise and passion) in our effort to force the governments of Canada and New Brunswick to recognize and acknowledge the Wulustukyeg Nation’s Creator-given self-determination (sovereignty) and to abide by the terms of the Treaties of Peace and Friendship. The WTCT is challenging the government of New Brunswick’s Crown Land Policy on the basis of their failure to consult (see the Supreme Court of Canada decision: Delgamuukw v. British Columbia) with the WTCT as the traditional governing body of the Wulustukyeg Nation - the Original Peoples and true owners of the territory that we have always known as Ski-gin-a-wekog which means Indian Land. Our challenge will be conducted on two fronts (first) negotiation, and (second) litigation. No matter which approach that the WTCT undertakes we are going to require substantial resources. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples(Articles 1, 3, and 4), the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights as well as the Vienna Declaration all affirm the right to self-determination of all peoples. The WTCT, being the traditional governing body of the Wulustukyeg nation is viewed by the government of Canada as being illegitimate and is therefore not "recognized" and in turn receives no government funding of any kind. The government of Canada only recognizes the puppet, Indian Act "democratically" elected chief and council which the government of Canada placed in power at the point of a gun and through government legislation. This illegitimate form of government (chief and council) has been granted very limited and very specific self-governing powers through the Indian Act. The chief and council’s power and jurisdiction are limited to the granted powers under the Indian Act and are restricted to the limits of the reservation. The WTCT possesses thousands of years of longevity. Our people’s Longhouse form of governance goes back thousands of generations and predates the present Indian Act form of governance. The authority and jurisdiction of the WTCT is Creator-given (sovereign) and includes all of our homeland which is all of Ski-gin-a-wekog. Individuals wishing to contribute resources and/or services may do so by contacting the office of the WTCT at: 15 Third Street, Tobique First Nation, N.B. Canada E7H 4Z2. Ph.(506) 273-4274 Fax (506) 273-2252 E-mail: hawbun@nbnet.nb.ca Website: www.TheWTCT.org We are asking all our relations to circulate this message far and wide.