Indigenous Governance Database

Gitanyow Nation: Land Use Planning to Protect their Territories

Producer
National Centre for First Nations Governance
Year

Gitanyow citizens, a nation with a strong system of hereditary chiefs, talk about the impacts of development on their traditional lands and how their land use plan has helped protect their territories.

comprehensive land use plan
land use
land use conflict resolution
Native Nations
Gitanyow Band
Topics
Governance
Land/Jurisdiction
Citation

"Gitanyow Nation: Land Use Planning to Protect their Territories." Bear Image Productions. National Centre for First Nations Governance. Canada. Film. 2011. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTytpgFeofQ&feature=plcp, accessed May 16, 2023).

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