stolen land
Taken without consent
Stolen land is a phrase used to characterize territory taken from indigenous peoples through conquest, broken treaties, or forced displacement.
The term reframes property and national borders as products of historical injustice rather than legitimate ownership: We're gathered today on stolen land.
Common in land acknowledgments and indigenous rights discourse, the phrase challenges assumptions about who rightfully belongs where.
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
occupation · treaty · broken treaties · reservation · settlers · displacement · sovereignty · natives · annexation · invasion · expropriation · genocide · ancestors · reclamation · decolonization · seized · tribal · broken promises
- Colonial AustraliaBotany Bay, penal colonies, convicts, penal colony, colonial settlement
- displacementdislocation, dislodging, relocation, displacing, uprooting
stolen landancestral homeland
Land of one's forebears
native land · traditional territory · unceded territory · sovereign land
stolen landland back
Indigenous sovereignty movement
reclaimed land · rightful possession · restitution · reparations
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