{"id":247,"date":"2022-02-01T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/decolonizingengineering\/?post_type=chapter&p=247"},"modified":"2022-07-25T01:44:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T05:44:35","slug":"indigenous-land-and-title-rights","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/decolonizingengineering\/chapter\/indigenous-land-and-title-rights\/","title":{"raw":"Indigenous Land and Title Rights","rendered":"Indigenous Land and Title Rights"},"content":{"raw":"https:\/\/learning.video.ubc.ca\/id\/0_eivuhdqn?width=608&height=402&playerId=23448773\r\n
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Watch this Training Video on \"Land & Title Rights.\" Download the audio podcast of this video<\/a> [Download Link].<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nLand and Title rights is an enormous topic that we don\u2019t expect you to become experts on. However, we will go over some of the basics because land theft is directly at the center of colonization. Today, the land use consultation process is part of a large, bureaucratic institution (the federal & provincial governments) that doesn\u2019t have the ultimate goal of benefiting Indigenous peoples.\r\n

Considering the Land<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nIn the Nikki Sanchez Ted Talk that you were asked to watch in the first lesson (Decolonization<\/a>), she asks us whose land our grandmothers were born on. Have you thought about it? Can you answer the question? There are two predominant ways to consider this question: Was your grandmother born on her traditional lands, or was she born a settler?\r\n\r\nSo why should we think about the land? Why is it essential to recognize whose traditional lands you are occupying? As we talked about in the decolonization lesson, places like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the US are full of settlers on essentially stolen and\/or unceded land. Unceded refers to land occupied by settlers without treaty negotiations taking place. While Indigenous peoples still live in what is known as \u201cCanada,\u201d they do not necessarily enjoy the same rights and title to the land that they did prior to colonization. This lesson will cover Indigenous land claims (or titles) and explore how the current government structures in \u201cCanada\u201d interact with Indigenous land rights.\r\n

Land Acknowledgements<\/h2>\r\nLet\u2019s say you\u2019re not Indigenous to the land you are occupying right now. If you are in Vancouver, the lands in this region are claimed as traditional by the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and other Coast Salish nations. The land is not only tradition, but it is ancestral, meaning the land was handed down from generation to generation. Lastly, the land in Vancouver is unceded, which means that the land was never handed over to the federal or provincial government, and no treaties were signed.\r\n\r\nWhen giving a land acknowledgement, it is crucial to mention if the land is unceded, traditional, and\/or ancestral and reflect on how your presence on that land contributes to colonization and violence against Indigenous peoples.\r\n\r\nHere is an example of a land acknowledgement used widely at UBC: \u201cI would like to acknowledge that we are gathered today on the\u00a0traditional, ancestral<\/i><\/strong>, and\u00a0unceded<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0territory of the Musqueam people.\u201d\r\n

Themes of Indigenous Land and Title Rights<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nIn Canada, Indigenous rights, including land rights, stem from a few sources, including inherent, pre-existing rights, the Royal Proclamation of 1763, and Section 35 of the Constitution Act. These Indigenous rights include (but are not limited to):\r\n
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