We have protested persistently against these expropriations. That claim can still be asserted in the future. Rather than assisting Indian Nations and realizing their claim the government has passed legislation to assimilate us. In the early 1920s legislation was passed outlawing our spiritual practices. Another law passed in the same period made it illegal to form an association to press land claims.
Legislation continues to exist which expropriates our hunting and fishing rights.
Even by 1948 in British Columbia and in Canada we couldn't vote in provincial or federal elections if we lived on reserves. The concept of Indian Government, as a way of confirming Indian special status, is explicitly rejected. This strategy was basically accepted by the government and is their policy today. The federal government has chosen not to respond to it in any real manner. The Indian Nations oppose patriation.