- Question
What are the positions on indigenous people's collective rights to their native lands?
This entry maps the debate over Indigenous peoples' collective rights to their native lands, setting out the opposing positions — that they should hold such collective rights, and that they should not.
Position 1 of 2
Read this position →Indigenous people should have collective rights to their native lands
This position holds that Indigenous peoples should hold rights to their native lands as peoples rather than as individuals: proponents argue that collective title matches how those lands are held and used, and is the form of right their continuity depends on.
Position 2 of 2
Read this position →Indigenous people should not have rights to their collective land
This position holds that rights to land should not take collective form: proponents argue that title vested in a group rather than in individuals leaves members unable to use or realise their own share, and is better replaced by ordinary individual ownership.