Hailed by Nisga'a leader Joseph Gosnell as the "end of more than a century of degradation and despair," but denouced by critics like hotliner Rafe Mair as "an absolutely shocking betrayal of democracy," everyone will agree ta the Nisga'a Treaty electrified the British Columbian and Canadian political landscapes like nothing else in recent times. It will be the subject of debate and the topic of many books in the years to come.