aboriginal lands
Native peoples' homelands
Aboriginal lands are territories traditionally occupied, used, or claimed by indigenous peoples before colonization.
The term appears in legal and political contexts concerning land rights, sovereignty, and restitution: The court recognized their claim to aboriginal lands.
In Australia specifically, Aboriginal lands refers to areas returned to or held by Aboriginal peoples under various land rights acts.
- sacred sitesReligiously significant locations
- burial groundsLand for interring remains
- ceremoniesFormal observances with ritual
- elder councilsAssemblies of senior advisors
- migration routesPaths animals travel seasonally
subsistence farming · treaties · sustainable practices · sovereignty · self-determination · territorial disputes · hunting grounds · indigenous resistance · historical trauma · forest stewardship · oral traditions · natural resources · ancestral lineage · cosmology · conservation areas · community development · legal recognition · outstation
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aboriginal landsoccupied territory
Land under foreign military control
annexed territory · ceded lands · European settlements · government land · state land
aboriginal landsindustrial zones
Areas designated for manufacturing
commercial property · private property · urban areas · subdivisions · agricultural land
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