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institutions—operating over geographically identical territories—on top of one another. Broadly
speaking, this is the way that Indigenous governance institutions have evolved in northern Canada. In
1995, when the Government of Canada updated its policy of negotiation to include self-government
provisions, the same groups that had come together to negotiate regional land claims could now enter
into the negotiation of regional self-government (Alcantara & Davidson 2015). As these agreements
were finalized, they overlaid existing regional corporate institutions. For