Encyclopedia of Opinion
Question
What are the positions on indigenous people's collective rights to their native lands?
Position‹2 of 2

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.

Supporting arguments · 2

  1. Title vested in a group leaves its individual members unable to use what they live on
  2. Rights attaching to descent rather than to persons sit badly with equality before the law