Indigenous Law

Indigenous Law in Language: Introduction

2023-09-06T00:07:51-04:00Categories: Language and cultural revitalization, Laws and Legal Systems, Resource|Tags: Blog, Indigenous Elders, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Law, Language, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples|

This blog is the first in a series from West Coast Environmental Law that looks [...]

What is Land Back? Land Governance: Past, Present, Future

2023-08-04T09:24:56-04:00Categories: Governance and decision-making, Resource|Tags: Biodiversity, Colonialism, Connection to Land, Dispossession, FPIC, Free Prior and Informed Consent, Indian Act, Indigenous Law, Indigenous Rights, Jurisdiction, Land Back, Land Use, Partnerships Reciprocity, Reconciliation, Reservations, Residential Schools, Responsibility, restoration, Self-determination, UNDRIP, Wampum Belt, water|

This series of videos examines how land governance must change to recognize and uphold Indigenous rights and responsibilities and to restore nature’s once abundant ecosystems.

Governance Back: Exploring Indigenous approaches to reclaiming relationships with land

2023-08-03T15:13:57-04:00Categories: Governance and decision-making, Resource|Tags: David Suzuki Foundation, Decolonizing Water Project, Indigenous Law, Indigenous leadership, Indigenous Rights, Land Back, Relationships, Self-determination, Stewardship|

This webinar features a dialogue Indigenous approaches to reclaiming relationships with the land and waters.

Video: Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation Marine Protected Area

2023-08-03T15:14:00-04:00Categories: IPCA Planning and Establishment, Resource|Tags: BC, British Columbia, food sovereignty, Gitdisdzu Lugyeks, Guardians, Indigenous Law, Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, Indigenous-led Conservation, IPCAs, Kitasoo/Xai’xais Nation, Kitasu Bay, Marine Protected Areas, MPAs, Stewardship|

This video from CNN provides a brief overview of Gitdisdzu Lugyeks (Kitasu Bay) Marine Protected Area (MPA) declared by the Kitasoo Xai'xais Nation (British Columbia).

Tahltan Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas Project

2023-08-03T15:12:27-04:00Categories: IPCA Planning and Establishment, Resource|Tags: Ice Mountain, Indigenous Governance, Indigenous Law, Indigenous Laws, Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, IPCAs, Klappan Sacred Headwaters, Knowledge Systems, Sheslay, Stewardship, Tahltan|

This links to the official website of the Tahltan Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas Project (British Columbia). It includes a project overview, background, and connected projects.

Indigenous Laws in the Context of Conservation

2023-08-03T15:12:51-04:00Categories: Laws and Legal Systems, Resource|Tags: BC, British Columbia, Co-governance, Haida Gwaii, Indigenous Law, Indigenous Nations, Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, Inuit, IPCAs, Northwest Territories, NWT, Partnerships, SGaan Kinghlas-Bowie Seamount Marine Protected Area, Thaidene Nëné|

This report examines how IPCAs can offer pathways to bring together Indigenous and Crown legal systems. It looks at SGaan Kinghlas-Bowie Seamount Marine Protected Area in Haida Gwaii and Thaidene Nëné in Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation territory as two contemporary examples of how this can occur.