Is Aboriginal rights an individual or collective?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Delgamuukw v. British Columbia, 1993 CanLII 4516 (BC CA):
(g) Aboriginal rights may be individual or collective according to whether they were and are treated by the aboriginal people as being individual or collective. (Amodu Tijani; Mabo v. Queensland).
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