Legislation that followed, dealing with restraints on the alienability of Indian lands and the policy that formed the relationship between Indians and the colonists, are the continuation of that which was established by, and at the time of, the Royal Proclamation: Mitchell v. Peguis Indian Band, 1990 CanLII 117 (SCC), [1990] 2 S.C.R. 85, at p. 130. Thus, the Indian Act must be interpreted with these origins in mind.
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