Indigenous Law

Wolastoqey Nations v. New Brunswick and Canada, et.al., 2024 NBKB 203

2024-11-22T14:33:42-05:00Categories: Laws and Legal Systems, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This legal document is a precedent setting decision confirming the possibility of declaring Aboriginal title over privately held land.

Aboriginal title can be declared over privately-owned land

2024-11-22T14:19:52-05:00Categories: Laws and Legal Systems, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This blog from Olthuis Kleer Townshend (OKT) Law provides context and further explanation of the decision for Aboriginal title to apply to privately owned lands. In November of 2024, six Wolastoqey Nations in New Brunswick received a precedent-setting decision in their Aboriginal title claim

Dáduqvḷá1 qṇtxv Ǧviḷ̓ásax̌: To look at our traditional laws. (Decision of the Heiltsuk (Haíɫzaqv) Dáduqvḷá Committee Regarding the October 13, 2016 Nathan E. Stewart Spill)

2024-10-25T09:40:31-04:00Categories: IPCAs and Indigenous-led Conservation, Report, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , |

This report documents the Heiltsuk Nation's response to the 2016 Nathan E. Stewart oil spill in their territorial waters.

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

2023-08-04T09:24:56-04:00Categories: Governance and decision-making, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Video: Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation Marine Protected Area

2023-08-03T15:14:00-04:00Categories: IPCA Planning and Establishment, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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).

Indigenous Laws in the Context of Conservation

2023-08-03T15:12:51-04:00Categories: Laws and Legal Systems, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Tahltan Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas Project

2023-08-03T15:12:27-04:00Categories: IPCA Planning and Establishment, Resource|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

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