The Canadian Press Chief Joe Alphonse of the Tsilhqot’in First Nation says the 2014 court ruling that resulted in the first declaration of Aboriginal title in Canadian history triggered a decade of “huge” shifts. Alphonse said on Wednesday’s 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada decision that recognized the First Nation as the titleholder within their traditional territory that there had been a transformation in policy toward Indigenous people that “cut deeper than I ever imagined that one single case could.” Speaking in Tsilhqot’in territory in the remote Nemaiah Valley in British Columbia’s Interior, Alphonse said the “pendulum’s always swinging in politics,” looking back on the last decade while remembering the adversarial relationship with the Harper-era Conservatives. Alphonse said he feared a change in the federal government would mean

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