{UAH} Land Rights & Native Title

The Draft U.N. Declaration was approved by the Sub-Commission after
several years of discussions in which both states and indigenous
peoples from throughout the world took part.[93] The Draft U.N.
Declaration affirms:

Indigenous peoples have the right to own, develop, control and use the
lands and territories, including the total environment of the lands,
air, waters, coastal seas, sea-ice, flora and fauna and other
resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or
used.

This includes the right to the full recognition of their laws,
traditions and customs, land-tenure systems and institutions for the
development and management of resources, and the right to effective
measures by States to prevent any interference with, alienation of or
encroachment upon these rights.[94]

*******Indigenous peoples may also receive indemnification for the
socio-environmental damage caused by resource extraction activities.

In Worcester v. Georgia, one of the most cited domestic law judicial
opinions in the world, Marshall wrote that the rights of discovery
belonging to European discoverers under the European Law of Nations
could not affect the property rights of the Indians of America, who
were "already in possession, either as aboriginal occupants, or as
occupants by virtue of a discovery made before the memory of
man."[225]

Chief Justice John Marshall's early nineteenth century opinions on
Indian rights under United States law figured prominently in the
fabric of international law concerning the rights of indigenous
peoples.[224]

To keep quite in face of blatant rape and violation of environmental
and people's rights in the name of power and the glory is suicidal.

Read and see here:

Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Human Rights ... - OHCHR
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/fs9Rev.2.pdf

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