The land case, and how the village will be kept informed

Acha-Tugi is in a legal dispute with a neighbouring village over land.

A village does not choose when such a thing comes to it. What it can choose is whether it is ready — whether it is properly represented, and whether the evidence of where the boundary runs has been kept, found and put in order. That is what the association is paying for, and it is why the case now sits among the works on the Projects page.

We are not going to argue the case on this website, and members should not argue it elsewhere either. What will be published here is the association's own part of it: what is being spent, and what is being asked of members. Every franc will appear on the Finance page beside every other franc, and the Treasurer will read the same figures at the convention.

One thing is asked of you now. The older the evidence, the more it is worth — a colonial assessment, a boundary agreement, minutes of a settlement, a photograph with a landmark in it, the testimony of an elder who walked the line. If you hold anything of that kind, or know who does, bring it to the archive rather than leaving it in a trunk. It is the one part of this that no lawyer can do for us.