Sahtu Dene And Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement Part 1 (PDF 566 Kb)

Volume I

Preamble

1. Objectives
2. Definitions
3. General Provisions
4. Eligibility and Enrolment
5. Self-government
6. Dispute Resolution
7. Sahtu Organizations
8. Financial Payments
9. Norman Wells Proven Area
10. Resource Royalties
11. Taxation
12. Economic Measures
13. Wildlife Harvesting and Management
14. Forestry
15. Plants
16. National Parks
17. Protected Areas
18. Harvesting compensation
19. Sahtu lands
20. Water Rights and Management
21. Access
22. Subsurface Resources
23. Sahtu Municipal Lands
24. Expropriation of Settlement Lands
25. Land and Water Regulation
26. Heritage Resources
27. Surface Rights Board
28. Other Aboriginal Claims
29. Implementation

Appendix A: Description and Map of the Settlement Area

Appendix B: Self-government Framework Agreement

Appendix C: Land Selection Process

Appendix D: Ratification Process

Sahtu Dene And Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement Part 2 (PDF 652 Kb)

Volume II: Appendix E - Land Selection Descriptions

• Schedule I: Sahtu Lands, Excluding Minerals

Sahtu Dene And Metis Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement Part 3 (PDF 483 Kb)

Volume II: Appendix E - Land Selection Descriptions

• Schedule II:  Sahtu Lands in the vicinity of Blackwater River, Blackwater Lake, Keller Lake, and Notseglee Lake, excluding minerals
• Schedule III:  Sahtu Lands, including minerals
• Schedule IV:  Specific sites
• Schedule V:  Special harvesting areas (fish)
• Schedule VI:  Special harvesting areas (migratory game birds)
• Schedule VII:  Special harvesting areas (moose)
• Schedule VIII:  Restriction of public use of portages and waterfront lands on Sahtu Lands
• Schedule IX:  Public fishing rights within Sahtu Lands
• Schedule X:  Rights of the public to hunt migratory game birds within Sahtu Lands
• Schedule XI:  Rights, titles or interests referred to in 21.2.3(b)
• Schedule XII:  Rights to use or operate on Sahtu Lands or on waters overlying Sahtu Lands
• Schedule XIII:  Restriction of commercial use of portages and waterfront lands ON Sahtu Lands
• Schedule XIV:  Sahtu municipal lands eligible for payment of property tax pursuant to 23.4.4
• Schedule XV:  Surveyed sahtu municipal lands
• Schedule XVI:  Unsurveyed Sahtu municipal lands
• Schedule XVII:  Notice of intent - expropriation of Sahtu Lands for the proposed Mackenzie highway
• Schedule XVIII:  Hazardous waste and stockpile waste sites identified by government
• Schedule XIX:  Easement at Bennett field - parcel 53
• Schedule XX:  Public and commercial travel routes
• Schedule XXI:  Canol Trail and Dodo Canyon
• Schedule XXII:  Kelly Lake protected area
• Schedule XXIII:  Rights of interprovincial pipeline (nw) ltd.

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