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  

  • 1977  In his hands will be formally placed the Inuit Tapirisat's comprehensive land-claim proposal, a document whose bold call for Eskimo self-determination will add to the Government's difficulties in negotiating land-claim settlements with native peoples across Canada. 
  • 1990  The B.C. government only last August agreed to join Ottawa in negotiating comprehensive land claim settlements with native leaders. 
  • 1990  The human-rights commission refers to a number of government failures, saying "the pace of change is simply too slow." It points out that the government has settled only three comprehensive land claims despite a long-standing claims policy. 
  • 1994  It will take years for all the specific or comprehensive land claims to be settled. 
  • 2003  They had just completed their comprehensive land claim agreement with the federal government. 
  • 2007  "That is the case because Yukon, like Nunavut, has a comprehensive land claims process and agreements in place, not treaties," he said. 
  • 2015  Today, the First Nation and the rest of the community live and govern together. The Teslin Tlingit Council is a selfgoverning First Nation with a comprehensive land claim settlement, while the municipality of Teslin is one of eight municipal governments in the Yukon.