Aboriginal lands
Native peoples' homelands
Aboriginal lands are territories traditionally owned, occupied, or used by Indigenous peoples, particularly in Australia, where the term is most common.
These lands may be held under customary law, returned through legal recognition, or designated as reserves: The mining company sought permission to survey Aboriginal lands.
The phrase carries legal weight in land rights disputes and treaty negotiations.
- treaty rightsPact-secured legal entitlements
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- sacred sitesReligiously significant locations
stewardship · ecological knowledge · hunting grounds · conservation · self-determination · dispossession · community development · sovereignty · ancestral knowledge · biodiversity · oral traditions · resistance movements · subsistence farming · ceremonies · storytelling · natural resources · sustainable practices · reconciliation
Aboriginal landscrown land
State-held territory in monarchies
state lands · government lands · federal lands · public lands · private property
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