DCHP-2

comprehensive land claim comprehensive land-claim DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — especially Territories, Aboriginal, Law

  a legal claim by Aboriginal people to land whose title was never ceded.

  Type: 1. Origin — In the early 1970s, the Canadian government established policies to deal with comprehensive land claims, which involve land and resources that were never ceded by treaty, sold, or surrendered, and specific claims that involve unfulfilled treaty promises. Comprehensive land claims always involve negotiations between the Canadian government and the Aboriginal group with traditional ownership of the land (see AANDC and Parliament of Canada references). Chart 1 shows the prevalence in Canada, while Chart 2 shows that the term is predominant in the Canadian Territories.
  See also COD-2, s.v. "comprehensive land claim", which is marked "Cdn".

  See also: treaty (meaning 1a)  land claim  specific land claim