Indigenous community publicly rejects deployment despite NURJ alignment

Scenario

After a Template C co-design process that followed all NURJ paper recommendations and received indigenous-rights advocate review, a member faction of the specific community publicly rejects the deployed DAO as colonial governance in a media-visible statement. Co-design does not guarantee unanimous community acceptance; factional disputes within indigenous communities are common.

Mechanism

A vocal faction rejecting the deployment — even if the majority accepted it — creates a narrative that Landseed's 'co-design framework' is not genuine co-governance. NURJ §IV.E (Cultural Risk Assessment) requires annual review but not exit-path design, leaving no procedural response to persistent dissent.

Mitigation

Template C deployments should include explicit community exit right — a procedural path by which the community can dissolve the DAO governance vehicle (not the underlying property right) and reclaim internal governance, with Landseed reduced to passive attestation service. NURJ §IV.E annual cultural risk assessment should include a 'persistent dissent' trigger that initiates governance re-design if more than a threshold of community members formally object.

Residual risk

Medium-high. Partly irreducible: some community decisions will be contested internally. Mitigation reduces but does not eliminate the architecture's exposure.