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UNDRIP Articles 3, 26, 32 Do Not Support Haida Aboriginal Ownership Through Voted Agreements

“UNDRIP Article 26 — The article shows Haida Aboriginal ownership over Haida Gwaii. UNDRIP Article 32 —The article shows negotiated agreements not court. UNDRIP Article 3 — The article shows the Haida voting on the agreement.”
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Summary

UNDRIP Article 26 affirms indigenous peoples’ right to own and use lands they traditionally owned, but the sources do not specifically confirm Haida ownership of Haida Gwaii. Article 32 addresses negotiated agreements, yet no source links it to Haida negotiations versus court settlements. Article 3 concerns self‑determination, but there is no evidence in the sources that it documents Haida voting on any agreement.

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  • United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    Article 25.- Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual and material relationship with the lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used, and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard. Article 26.- Indigenous peoples have the right to own, develop, control and use the lands and territories, including the total environment of the lands, air, waters, coastal seas, sea-ice, flora and fauna and other resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used.

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cigionline.org
  • UNDRIP Implementation Braiding International, Domestic and Indigenous Laws

    20 For a deeper discussion of the full box analogy of Aboriginal rights, see Ardith Walkem & Halie Bruce, eds, Box of Treasures or Empty Box? Twenty Years of Section 35 (Penticton, BC: Theytus Books, 2003). ... 22 Gib van Ert, “Three Good Reasons Why UNDRIP Can’t Be Law — and One Good Reason Why it Can” (January 2017) Advocate 29 at 30–31. 23 Haida Nation v British Columbia (Minister of Forests), [2004] 3 SCR 511 at para 17.

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