Indigenous property rights can impact real estate transactions coast to coast. Indigenous land title differs significantly from freehold tenure. On-reserve conveyancing and financing present an entirely novel vocabulary and statutory framework to the uninitiated. Likewise, Indigenous legal and treaty rights may impact off-reserve land, requiring practitioners in the civil or common law system to identify and address client risks in the course of a transaction. This course aims to give general real estate practitioners an essential and practical primer on Indigenous real property rights.

Topics will include:

• Introduction to regimes of property systems
• Off-reserve: duty to consult, archaeology, access and additions to reserve
• Tsilhqot'in decision in context: impact of claims and treaties on private land

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