What sounds like a beef about the Saskatchewan Parks Act is really a much bigger story that involves the Doctrine of Discovery.
The McAdam siblings pleaded not guilty to trespassing in February 2017.
Their two-day trial took place in Prince Albert, Sask.
The case against them was dismissed.
King said what played out in Saskatchewan is similar to the Coastal GasLink pipeline dispute on Unist'oten territory in northern B.C. and the Alton Gas battle on Mi'kmaq land in Nova Scotia, to name but two.
"Indigenous people are disproportionately criminalized under wildlife regulations and conservation regulations," said King, in a telephone interview from Toronto.
She and her brother hauled a trailer to Delaronde Lake, west of Prince Albert, to live near their father's old homestead and his community's graveyard.
"Those are my father's people… there was even a Hudson's Bay Fort that was there, there was even a school, there was a makeshift church," said Sylvia.
She said when she returned to the land all of her items were confiscated.
"They say they didn't but there it is," she said.