Inuvialuit Land Administration

Description

The ILA is the division of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) responsible for managing and administering Inuvialuit owned lands in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR). The ISR is the area of land and water subject to the land claims agreement known as the Inuvialuit Final Agreement (IFA), settled between the Inuvialuit and the Government of Canada. The legislation implementing the IFA is the Western Arctic (Inuvialuit) Claims Settlement Act, 1984. The Inuvialuit are the aboriginal people who have traditionally used the land within the ISR. The Inuvialuit own a total of 35,000 square miles of land in the ISR. This includes both surface and subsurface rights to 5,000 sq. miles of land (referred to as 7(1)(a) lands) and surface rights (including rights to granular resources) to a further 30,000 sq. miles (referred to as 7(1)(b) lands). The remaining lands (as well as subsurface rights on 7(1)(b) lands) remain largely under the ownership and control of the federal Crown, with the exception of Hamlet lands which are controlled by the Government of Northwest Territories.

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