Donald Marshall, the 55 year old native activist who was at the centre of one the most significant legal cases involving native hunting, fishing and gathering has died. A 1999 Supreme Court of Canada ruling upheld a centuries-old treaty governing those rights. He also spent 11 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder in a case where the conviction was overturned, a royal commission into the case found that Marshall was a victim of racism and incompetence.