The GNWT Department of Lands over the coming weeks will be putting notices on what it considers unauthorized cabins set up on K谩t艂SA国际影视传媒檕deeche First Nation territory, according to a Facebook post made by the community, Nov. 18.

The post states that the KFN and territorial government have been working together to identify structures that have been set up on traditional lands without consent.

SA国际影视传媒淜FN has been involved in respectful negotiations with the GNWT and has shared information about KFN owned or authorized cabins so that notices will not be put on these cabins,SA国际影视传媒� reads the notice.

Peter Redvers, director of lands with KFN said in an interview on Nov. 19 that the issue of unauthorized cabins - or structures built on Indigenous lands without leases or traditional rights to do so - has been an ongoing problem across the Northwest Territories at least since the Devolution Agreement was signed in 2013.

That agreement included GNWT rights to take over land administration across the territory.

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Redvers estimated there are in and around 150 cabins documented on KFN territory - a large bulk of those, and likely the majority, are cabins authorized and recognized historically as owned by members.

SA国际影视传媒淚n terms of the remainder - which are rights holders versus those that are unauthorized - is still a subject for discussion,SA国际影视传媒� he said.

A big reason for the notice is to raise awareness among members in case they receive a notice on their cabins in the coming weeks that they should not receive.

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Any KFN member who receives a notice on their cabins to which they feel they shouldnSA国际影视传媒檛 have received, is asked to bring the notice into the communitySA国际影视传媒檚 administration office.

At the moment, there is no protocol for people wanting to lease land on KFN territory who would otherwise not be members, however this is an issue being discussed, Redvers said.

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Lands department officials did not respond to questions from the Hub before press deadline.