Aboriginal Title
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In 2018, the Art Gallery of Ontario retitled a painting by Emily Carr which contained an offensive word. Controversy ensued, with some arguing that unsanctioned changes to a work's title infringe upon artists' moral and free speech... more
Beginning in the 1970s, as the federal government began to negotiate comprehensive land claims based on extant Aboriginal title, historical understandings of Indigenous land use and occupancy gained new significance as a means of... more
Contemporary postcolonial scholarship often argues that common law Aboriginal title and the rights of indigenous peoples are regulated by colonial legal regimes that determine the limits of recognition and subjects indigenous peoples to... more
The Supreme Court of Canada began to recognize aboriginal rights on land in 1973. According to landmark decisions taken in 1990 and 1997, occupancy by indigenous peoples prior to British discovery should be regarded as an autonomous title... more
The question of land rights of Aboriginal groups and the proof of Aboriginal title are hotly debated issues in Canada, mainly because they have an immediate impact on lives of Aboriginal peoples and sometimes are the matter of life or... more
In 1925, the BC government passed an order-in-council requiring the registration of all traplines, a geographically bounded territory in which an individual or group has exclusive trapping rights. This order-in-council produced the first... more
This thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge by evaluating Malaysian laws on Orang Asli (OA) land and resource rights and suggesting an alternative legal framework for better recognition and protection of these rights: (1) by... more