To clarify a common misunderstanding, the Mi& #39;kmaq fishery is a nation-to-nation relationship, it is not "race-based." Its a political & legal relationship that the Mi& #39;kmaq have with Canada re fisheries. This is why the Province of NS & commercial fishers have no jurisdiction here

Douglas Harris ( @douglascharris) wrote this over a decade ago in the Tyee and it helped my own understanding immensely (as a white girl growing up in a commercial fishing town):

"Aboriginal rights are not based on race but, as the Supreme Court... indicated, on the fact that & #39;when Europeans arrived in N. America, Aboriginal ppls were already here, living in communities on the land & participating in distinctive cultures as they had done for centuries& #39;...

...The source of an Aboriginal right to fish, therefore, lies not in a racial designation, but rather in the use & management of the fisheries by distinct political communities whose existence long preceded the British assertion of sovereignty." -D. Harris https://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/06/21/Fishery/">https://thetyee.ca/Views/200...