Un grand tribunal, appelé Tribunal des revendications particulières autochtones, relevant de la Chambre des communes, traitent la plupart des causes. À un moment donné de l'histoire, une municipalité a dit: «On a fini de couper la forêt à tel endroit et on voudrait maintenant empiéter sur la réserve.
Before a major tribunal known as the specific native claims tribunal, which reports to the House of Commons and where most cases were heard, a municipality would decide at one point “We have finished cutting down the forest at this point, we would now like to encroach on the reserve.