Indigenous Law

Reweaving the Legal Fabric: Full Transcript

2025-05-28T13:53:24-04:00Categories: Longform Resource, Transcript|Tags: Governance, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Indigenous Law, Indigenous Rights, law, Legal Systems|

This is the full transcript for the audio recording of "Reweaving the Legal Fabric: Indigenous Governance and Conservation Law in Canada."

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: Aboriginal Law, Aboriginal title, Crown Obligations, Fee Simple, Indigenous Governance, Indigenous Law, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous-Crown Relations, Land Back, law, legal, Legal Precedent, N.B., New Brunswick, private land, Reconciliation, Wolastoqey, Wolastoqey Nations|

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

2025-03-28T15:31:32-04:00Categories: Laws and Legal Systems, Resource|Tags: Aboriginal Law, Aboriginal title, Indigenous Governance, Indigenous Law, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous-Crown Relations, Land Back, law, legal, N.B., New Brunswick, private land, Reconciliation, truth, Wolastoqey|

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)

2025-06-23T12:50:09-04:00Categories: Governance and decision-making, Resource|Tags: Environmental justice, Environmental Stewardship, Heiltsuk Nation, Indigenous Law, legal traditions, oil spill response, Resilience, self governance|

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

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

2025-05-27T11:30:02-04:00Categories: 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.