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Treaty: This is how we get over it

Finding ourselves in the story of this land, together.

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Daniel James
Sep 12, 2025
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This moment did not arrive out of nowhere. It carries the weight of a line that stretches back more than sixty thousand years across the lands and waters we now call Victoria. A line of footsteps, stories, and sovereignty that refuses to be broken. As the treaty preamble itself declares, “This land was never empty, never ceded, never…

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