traditional territories
Indigenous peoples' regions
Traditional territories are lands historically occupied and used by Indigenous peoples before colonization, often extending beyond current reserve or reservation boundaries.
The term appears frequently in Canadian land acknowledgments: We gather on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Unlike legal terms like "treaty lands," traditional territories emphasizes cultural and ancestral connection rather than government-recognized boundaries.
- land claimsAssertions of property ownership
- ancestral landsFamily territory through generations
- land acknowledgmentRecognition of indigenous peoples' territory
- land treatiesContracts governing ground ownership
- land backIndigenous sovereignty movement
territorial boundaries · hunting grounds · unceded · sovereignty · communal ownership · self-determination · archaeological sites · oral traditions · time immemorial · land stewardship · sacred sites · medicine wheel · First Nations · ecological balance · resource management · water rights · tribal customs · homeland
- Indigenous CanadaFirst Nations, Metis, Inuit, Cree, Ojibwe
- indigenous landsancestral lands, ancestral territories, native land, native lands, tribal lands
- Indigenous Lawindigenous law, aboriginal rights, indigenous sovereignty, ceremonial law, traditional law
- indigenous rightsnative sovereignty, indigenous sovereignty, aboriginal rights, land title, native rights
- Native Landsnative lands, tribal lands, allotments, ancestral lands, indigenous territories
- Indigenous Treatieshistoric treaties, historical treaties, tribal treaties, Treaty of Greenville, Treaty of Waitangi
traditional territoriesceded lands
Territory formally surrendered
treaty lands · crown land · federal land · state land · reserve lands
traditional territoriescolonial settlements
Established communities in claimed territories