Dehcho First Nations given options in land, resource rights in latest federal land claim offer

Some details of the federal and territorial governments' offer to the DehchoFirst Nations have been made public.

The discussion paperincludes two different scenarios for chiefs to consider. Three pages of a 14-page discussion paper were posted on Twitter by a former elected leader who attended the negotiation as a member of the public

• Dehcho getting new land offer on Thursday, grand chief says

The three documents were posted on Jim Antoine's Twitter account. Antoine is a former premier of the N.W.T., a former chief of Liidlii Kue First Nation, and wasinvolved in the Dehcho negotiation processseveral years ago.

The documents outline two options. One has a $113-million cash settlement offer, with 48,000 square kilometres of surface and subsurface resource royalty rights, butnoresource revenues from Crown land in the Mackenzie Valley.

The other option is the same cash settlement, but with a smaller land offer of42,000 square kilometres of surface and subsurface rights,and a small share in mineral royalties from development on Crown land in the Mackenzie Valley.

Both offers have alternate scenarios for whether Nahanni Butte Dene Bandparticipates in the settlement. The band broke away from the DehchoFirst Nations last year. Both the cash settlement and land offer are smaller if NahanniButte does not participate.

Antoine confirmed the documents are authentic, saying he posted them for members of the DehchoFirst Nation, but not for media. He declined to comment further to CBCNews.

The documents don't represent anything final yet, and what's public now represents an incomplete picture of the offer.

The Dehcho leadership will still need to look over this document among themselves. Then they'll decide whether to recommend members approve it.