Land Back

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

2024-11-22T14:19:52-05:00Categories: 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

Land Trusts and Indigenous Peoples: The Canadian Context

2024-06-19T11:54:49-04:00Categories: Featured Resource|Tags: Governance, Indigenous Land Trusts, Land Back, Land Trusts, private land, Rematriation, Self-determination|

This report offers a general overview of some considerations and factors associated with establishing and operating a land trust. It also includes specific examples of recommendations and insights from Indigenous individuals affiliated with land trusts.

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.

Land Back: Governance for a Just World

2023-08-03T15:08:38-04:00Categories: Governance and decision-making, Resource|Tags: Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership, CRP, David Suzuki Foundation, Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, IPCAs, justice, Land Back, Relationships, Sovereignty|

This webinar examines how to support just and ecologically healthy futures when relationships are redefined and Indigenous sovereignty, rights, and responsibilities are respecte

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

2023-08-03T15:07:35-04:00Categories: 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.

Conservation as Colonialism Legacies of Exclusion and Prospects for Inclusion

2023-08-03T15:06:10-04:00Categories: Colonial conservation, Resource|Tags: Banff, Colonialism, Haida Nation, Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, IPCAs, Land Back, Reconciliation, Rocky Mountains Park|

This paper explores the potential of IPCAs to address the dominant colonial paradigm in modern-day conservation efforts.

Land Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper

2023-08-03T15:04:47-04:00Categories: Financing and Indigenous- led Conservation Economies, Resource|Tags: Colonialism, Consent, Dispossession, FPIC, Indigenous Law, Indigenous Rights, Jurisdiction, Land Back, Recognition, Reconciliation, Resource Extraction, UNDRIP|

This paper from the Yellowhead Institute provides an overview of the current status of land dispossession in Canada, focusing on alienation through resource extraction.