Tools and Resources

Tools and resources designed to support Indigenous land stewardship, blending traditional knowledge with modern practices to protect, manage, and sustain lands for future generations.

FAQs

Find answers to common questions about services and support for the First Nation Lands Managers.

What is Land Management?

Land management is the day-to-day management and administration of reserve lands, environment, and resources. It generally includes activities related to the benefit of use and development of land for individual, collective, and economic purposes.

As part of an overall approach to facilitate the assumption of control over First Nation Lands, Land Management Programs were developed to transfer control over land management from INAC to First Nations.

INAC and First Nations are developing, maintaining and modernizing professional expertise and tools to keep pace with the reality of a development context characterized by diverse and complex forms of land use in compliance with emerging environmental regimes:

  1. Reserve Land and Environment Management Program
  2. First Nation Land Management Act
  3. Comprehensive Self Government

No certification are required. Members range from beginners to senior managers.

To raise professionnal standards of the First Nation Lands Management professionnals by providing opportunities for training, professionnal capacity development, mentoring and technical expertise in the area of First Nation Lands Management;
 
To develop and maintain communication among First Nation Lands Management professionals;
 
To build and promote the Atlantic Region Aboriginal Lands Association throughout Atlantic First Nations and to encourage their membership with ARALA;
 
To promote, encourage and recognize First Nation for the successful work they have done in the area of First Nation Lands Management.

Submit the form with your request to join ARALA;

Submit the required documentation on official organization letterhead;

Await approval from the Board to join.

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