To date, settlements have totaled $169 million, plus at least $11 million in legal fees.
Their position is principled: why should First Nations, whose governments, laws and communities pre-date settlement and colonisation, vote for a Canadian government built on lands stolen from them?
This had wide applications, because if pottery could be dated, settlements, including early towns, could be identified and understood.
English laws passed after the date of settlement did not automatically apply in the colonies, and even presettlement legislation was liable to adaptation.
A study by Terry L. Hunt of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and Carl P. Lipo of California State University, Long Beach, calls those earlier analyses into question and puts the date of settlement around 1200.
Each futures contract is standardized and specifies commodity, quality, quantity, delivery date and settlement.
To date, no settlement has been reached.
Records for the last date of settlement for the smaller islands are incomplete, but most of them were inhabited at some point during the Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic or Norse periods.
The National Museum in Pazardzhik has artifacts dating the settlement from 2000 bc.
Preliminary research dates the settlement from about 900 to A.D. 1100, during the period of the Fremont Indian culture.
To date, three settlements have been agreed with several further cases pending against other individuals and a national newspaper.
