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By John Hawke Under the Indian Act, Band Councils generally do not require a community vote or membership consent to approve major capital spending, economic development agreements, equity partnerships, or loan arrangements unless their custom governance laws require it. However, when those decisions support projects that may adversely affect Treaty Rights, traditional lands, harvesting, hunting, fishing, sacred sites, or Indigenous stewardship responsibilities, the issue ext

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