Lake Babine Nation Treaty Office, Burns Lake, BC

At the Lake Babine Nation Treaty Office we perform a variety of duties related to negotiation, community engagement, and various types of research.

Negotiations require that we make sure that we are well-informed about what other groups have tried to do in their agreements with the government and that we evaluate those approaches for how useful they might be to LBN. Where a good approach has been found, we can use the elements of it that work for LBN as a framework for negotiations. Where there is nothing that fits LBN we have to come up with a new model. Another part of negotiations is trying to figure out ways that some of the benefits of treaty can be seen by the members or tested by LBN before treaty is signed.