Land Ownership
Full ownership of lands will provide an opportunity to significantly expand our small land base throughout our core traditional territory. These lands will be called Hul'qumi'num lands. A major benefit of full ownership is that it gives our people certainty over the jurisdiction of lands and waters, and the resources therein. It also allows us to realize a better economic potential from our lands while respecting community values. Ownership is a major move away from the Indian Act system and from the Minister of Indian Affairs controlling our affairs on our lands. Our priority, therefore, is to acquire full ownership of as much as possible of our people’s core traditional territory.

The land selection component of the treaty settlement package will consist of existing Indian reserves, Crown lands, and willing seller private lands. Existing reserves account for less than 2% of our territory, and are currently under legal ownership of the federal government. We will gain full ownership of these reserve lands.

The Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group will negotiate that private lands, purchased by government as part of the treaty package on a willing buyer/willing seller basis, are critical in meeting the community housing, economic and cultural land needs of our people into the future.

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