The Indigenous Housing and Homelands Toolkit is designed to support First Nations in understanding what possibilities exist for culturally legitimate housing and lands governance, particularly within the context of Aboriginal title lands, modern treaty lands, and other emerging jurisdictions in British Columbia. The modules presented within this toolkit seek to explore ideas that are ‘outside the box’ of the colonial Indigenous housing system. Underlying this work is the assumption that Indigenous values, principles, jurisdiction, and legal orders can form the foundation for innovative mechanisms for lands and housing developments. This in turn would provide the type of legal certainty required to induce investment and financing while balancing Indigenous cultural priorities and values. Each module can be used individually, in connection ...
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