traditional lands
Indigenous peoples' domain
Traditional lands are territories historically occupied, used, or claimed by Indigenous peoples before colonization or displacement.
The phrase appears most often in discussions of Aboriginal rights, land claims, and territorial acknowledgments: We gather on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish peoples.
Traditional lands may include hunting grounds, sacred sites, and areas of cultural significance extending beyond formal reservations or reserves.
- AboriginalAustralia's native peoples
- First NationsCanada's non-Inuit indigenous peoples
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
- ancestral homelandsRegions where forebears originated
Queensland · songlines · treaty rights · Dreamtime · treaties · Stolen Generations · oral traditions · sacred sites · fish · sustainability · custodianship · sovereignty · ancestry · community · homeland · boundaries · rituals · heritage
- Aboriginal CultureDreamtime, songlines, corroboree, dreaming, totems
- Indigenous AustraliaAboriginal art, Dreamtime, dreaming, corroboree, didgeridoo
- Indigenous AustraliansAboriginal, Dreamtime, Dreaming, corroboree, songlines
- indigenous landsancestral territories, ancestral territory, indigenous reserves, homeland, homelands
- land rightseasement, easements, freehold, right of way, leasehold
- ethnic mapsethnic groups, ethnic patterns, tribal regions, clan territories
traditional landsceded lands
Territory formally surrendered
annexed territory · occupied territories · treaty lands · reservation lands