A 100-year-old land dispute may be coming to an end. Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation has reached a tentative settlement with the federal government over the size of the reserve in the Assiniboia area. The First Nation says Canadian officials took half of their original reserve around the time of the first World War, and then gave that land to returning non-Indigenous soldiers and settlers.

The proposed settlement agreement states that the federal government will pay around $50-million to compensate for the loss of the use of the land and the First Nation can buy nearly 57-hundred acres of land to replace what was taken.

Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation members are the descendants of Sitting Bull’s tribe. It is one of three First nations in Saskatchewan that never entered into Treaty.