<P> The Royal Proclamation continued to govern the cession of Indigenous land in British North America, especially Upper Canada and Rupert's Land . Upper Canada created a platform for treaty making based on the Royal Proclamation . After loyalists moved into land after Britain's defeat in the American Revolution, the first impetus was created out of necessity . The proclamation forms the basis of land claims of Indigenous peoples in Canada--First Nations, Inuit, and Métis . The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is thus mentioned in Section 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms . </P> <P> According to historian Colin Calloway, "(settler) scholars disagree on whether the proclamation recognized or undermined tribal sovereignty". The proclamation established the important precedent that the indigenous population had certain rights to the lands they occupied . </P> <P> Some see the Royal Proclamation of 1763 as a "fundamental document" for First Nations land claims and self - government . It is "the first legal recognition by the British Crown of Aboriginal rights" and imposes a fiduciary duty of care on the Crown . The intent and promises made to the native in the Proclamation have been argued to be of a temporary nature, only meant to appease the Native peoples who were becoming increasingly resentful of "settler encroachments on their lands" and were capable of becoming a serious threat to British colonial settlement . Advice given by a merchant to the Board of Trade on August 30, 1764, expressed that </P> <P> The Indians all know we cannot be a Match for them in the midst of an extensive woody Country...from whence I infer that if we are determined to possess Our Posts, Trade & ca securely, it cannot be done for a Century by any other means than that of purchasing the favour of the numerous Indian inhabitants . </P>

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