Indigenous Displacement in Canada’s Largest Park

July 29, 2025 By: Amir Meshgini

A 2024 report investigates the Dene people’s forced removal from their ancestral territory during the creation of Wood Buffalo Provincial Park despite the fact that Dene people had the right to live in those lands based on Treaty No. 8. The article highlights how the “park became an instrument of colonial power in Denesuline homelands after 1922 and Indigenous peoples were expelled from the park in the name of conservation and tourism.” This represents Unit 3’s theme of Indigenous people’s exclusion from the parks.

https://www.nnsl.com/news/history-of-canadas-largest-national-park-reveals-exclusion-of-first-nations-people-and-injustice-7325376