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Record W3155083190 · doi:10.26180/17019824

The Factual Basis for Indigenous Land Rights

2021· article· en· W3155083190 on OpenAlex
Kent McNeil

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Bibliographic record

VenueOpen MIND · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNew Caledonia Indigenous Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousWatsonIndigenous rightsGoodwillDenialLawSovereigntyLand rightsPolitical scienceHistoryHuman rightsPoliticsEthnology

Abstract

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Groundbreaking judgments in Australia and Canada in the 1990s reveal that Indigenous land rights depend on evidence of Indigenous occupation and law when the British Crown asserted sovereignty. Looking back at earlier Indigenous rights decisions, it is apparent that they were not based on facts, but on prejudicial and erroneous assumptions about Indigenous peoples. In <i>St Catherine’s Milling and Lumber Co v The Queen</i> (‘<i>St Catherine’s</i>’), Lord Watson said the rights of the Ojibwe Indians were based solely on the goodwill of the Crown, a conclusion that evidently stemmed from the trial judge’s racist assessment of Ojibwe society. In <i>Cooper v Stuart</i>, Lord Watson wrongly described New South Wales as a ‘territory practically unoccupied, without settled inhabitants or settled law’ at the time it became a British colony.<br> This article demonstrates that what was missing in the 1880s was not law supporting Indigenous land rights, but rather evidence that should have led to the application of existing law. Erroneous factual assumptions resulted in legal precedents that led to the denial of Indigenous rights for around a century. Nor is the impact of these precedents entirely spent — even today, false arguments are made that there was no basis in 19th century common law for Indigenous land rights.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.977
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.351
Teacher spread0.303 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it