native communities
First peoples' groups
Native communities are groups of people indigenous to a particular region, especially those maintaining distinct cultural identities and traditional connections to ancestral lands.
The term appears frequently in discussions of rights, sovereignty, and social services: The program was developed in consultation with native communities.
In North America, it often refers specifically to American Indian, Alaska Native, or First Nations populations.
- homelandOne's native land
- tribal landsIndigenous peoples' sovereign territory
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- ancestral knowledgeUnderstanding inherited from forebears
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
colonization · self-determination · language · hunting · sovereignty · ecosystem · treaties · treaty rights · land back · oral tradition · biodiversity · historical trauma · indigenous rights · fishing · kinship · sacred sites · rituals · animism
- indigenous rightsindigenous sovereignty, traditional territories, aboriginal rights, land title, land back
native communitiesimmigrant communities
Groups of foreign-born residents
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