indigenous territory
Native peoples' land
Indigenous territory is land historically inhabited and claimed by native peoples, often predating colonial or national boundaries.
The term appears in legal and political contexts involving land rights, sovereignty, and cultural preservation: The pipeline would cross indigenous territory.
Indigenous territories may or may not align with official government recognition, and disputes over their boundaries remain common in many countries.
- tribal landIndigenous community's territory
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- treatiesFormal agreements between states
- ancestral landsFamily territory through generations
biodiversity · land back · land rights · oral history · elder wisdom · traditional knowledge · community development · land claims · region · sacred sites · sacred ground · recognition · stewardship · heritage · self-determination · cultural landscape · resistance movements · reparations
- commonscommon land, common goods, shared resources, commons, town common
- protected areasnature reserve, wildlife sanctuary, protected area, nature preserve, wildlife refuge
- places of originhomeland, birthplace, motherland, fatherland, hometown
- tundraalpine tundra, Alaskan tundra, Siberian tundra, permafrost, permafrost layer
- political entitiesnation, state, country, kingdom, republic
indigenous territorycolonial settlement
Outpost in claimed territory
occupied territory · annexed territory · conquered land · crown land · federal land
indigenous territorysettler colony
Territory where arrivals supplant natives
colonial settlement · occupied territory · plantation · colonial outpost · trading post