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It is the largest Aboriginal land claim settlement in Canadian history. [ 1 ] The NLCA consists of 42 chapters, which address a broad range of political and environmental rights and concerns including wildlife management and harvesting rights, land , water and environmental management regimes, parks and conservation areas , heritage resources ...
To protect indigenous land rights, special rules are sometimes created to protect the areas they live in. In other cases, governments establish "reserves" with the intention of segregation . Some indigenous peoples live in places where their right to land is not recognised, or not effectively protected.
By 1985, the Labrador Métis Association (LMA) was formalized, and it submitted its first land claim in 1991. [ 6 ] [ 58 ] This was rejected. In 1996, a report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples stated that the Labrador Métis had all the features of a distinct Aboriginal group, and would be theoretically able to accept the rights ...
Claim at the South Yuba River. A land claim is "the pursuit of recognized territorial ownership by a group or individual". [1] The phrase is usually only used with respect to disputed or unresolved land claims. Some types of land claims include aboriginal land claims, Antarctic land claims, and post-colonial land claims.
Indigenous land rights are the rights of Indigenous peoples to land and natural resources therein, either individually or collectively, mostly in colonised countries. Land and resource-related rights are of fundamental importance to Indigenous peoples for a range of reasons, including: the religious significance of the land, self-determination, identity, and economic factors. [1]
A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.
In Alexkor v Richtersveld Community (2003), a suit under the Restitution of Land Rights Act 1994, [115] lawyers gathered case law from settler jurisdictions around the world, and judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa talked frankly about Aboriginal title. [116] The Land Claims Court had dismissed the complaint of the Richtersveld ...
As such it was a precursor for the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976. [6] [9] In 1979 the Larrakia people made their first formal land claim, the Kenbi Land Claim over the Cox Peninsula, which remain ungranted until 2006. [7] [10] [11] [12] [13]