from hiring lawyers to assert their rights. This was due, in turn, to the fact that the supreme court of jurisdiction in London, the , recognized pre-European rights as continuing until the contrary was established. The government postponed the issue from 1925, allowing plenty of time before a parliamentary inquiry, which was to take place in 1927. At that time, Parliament passed the aforementioned ban on hiring lawyers. Barely a year later, the Allied Tribes disintegrated. In 1931, the tribes formed the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia, which published the monthly paper Native Voice. In addition, there was participation in the Indian Homemakers' Association and the Confederation of British Columbia Indians. In 1947, as a kind of by-product of a worldwide development in favor of voting rights for minorities, the Indians were given the right to vote at the provincial level. In 1951, they succeeded in getting cultural practices, such as potlatch, exempted from all prohibitions. Children were now allowed to attend public schools, legal counsel could be obtained, and the punishability of alcohol consumption and possession was lifted. Since the Canadian government curtailed the possibility of appealing to the Judicial Committee in London, from 1949 only Canadian courts were eligible. However, in the early 1950s, Frank Calder of the Nisga'a began a new offensive with regard to land claims. Other groups, such as the Nuu-chah-nulth, also began to organize (1958). In 1960, the Indians were given the right to vote at the federal level, but in 1965 the Court of Justice in Victoria tried to enforce that in undiscovered British Columbia the law of 1763 had no validity. However, the Supreme Court rejected this. In 1969, the Chief Justice of British Columbia, Davey, nevertheless rejected the Nisga'a land rights, and in 1973 the Supreme Court declared that the Nisga'a had held the rights. While several provinces and the federal government now recognized the land rights in principle, the province still refused. However, the ruling Social Credit Party now made a new argument, namely that nothing had been paid for the cession of these rights when joining Confederation. In the mid-1980s, 75% of the participants in a vote of the Vancouver Sun recognized the rights of the Indians. In 1988, the BC First Nations Congress was formed, chaired by Bill Wilson. Beginning in 1989, he held non-binding talks with resource companies, to which the government soon agreed. Unrest in other