aboriginal rights
First peoples' claims
Aboriginal rights are the collective rights of indigenous peoples arising from their historical occupation of lands before colonization.
These typically include rights to traditional territories, hunting and fishing, cultural practices, and self-governance.
The term appears most often in Canadian legal and political contexts: The treaty recognized aboriginal rights to the northern watershed.
Courts and governments continue to define the scope of these rights.
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- land backIndigenous sovereignty movement
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
tribal councils · language preservation · traditional knowledge · autonomy · sacred sites · oral traditions · ancestral lands · consultation · truth and reconciliation · stewardship · hunting · advocacy · reparations · court rulings · fiduciary duty · fishing · ceremonies · restitution
- rightscivil liberties, immunity, liberty, constitutional guarantees, fundamental freedoms
- Canadian Constitutionconstitutional amendment, 1867, 1982, division of powers, federal powers
- Indigenous Lawindigenous law, indigenous sovereignty, ceremonial law, traditional law, Indian Act
- indigenous rightsnative sovereignty, indigenous sovereignty, traditional territories, land title, native lands
- Government Policyeconomic policy, tax policy, healthcare policy, education policy, immigration policy
- Indigenous cultureancestors, ancestry, ancestral lands, ancestral lineage, animal totems
aboriginal rightsstate sovereignty
Supreme political authority within borders
aboriginal rightscolonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
colonial rule · settler colonialism · imperial authority · assimilation policies · dispossession