Yukon aboriginals sign massive land claim deal with Ottawa.Fourteen aboriginal bands, through the Council for Yukon Indians, negotiated with the federal government to settle land claims in the Yukon Territory for 17 years. Although the council had hoped to win the entire territory, it finally signed a deal on April 1, 1990. The bands would receive $232 million and 41,440 square kilometres of land, representing 8.6 per cent of all the Yukon Territory. The parties had reached an agreement in principle a year earlier, but took until their self-imposed deadline to work out the details. The council and the federal and territorial cabinets ratified the final agreement in 1993. Although at the time, the parties still had to work out individual settlement issues for each of the bands, as well as negotiations on self-government, the agreement represented one of the biggest steps in recent Canadian history to rectify land claims amongst the aboriginal population.
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