treaty lands
Indigenous reserved areas
Treaty lands are territories where Indigenous peoples retain rights established through formal agreements with colonial or national governments.
These rights typically include hunting, fishing, and gathering privileges, and may involve shared governance or resource management.
The term appears frequently in Canadian and American discussions of Indigenous sovereignty: The pipeline would cross treaty lands.
Treaty land claims remain actively contested in courts and legislatures.
- traditional territoriesIndigenous peoples' original homelands
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- watershedsRegions draining to outlets
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- oral traditionsCulture transmitted through speech
hunting grounds · jurisdiction · conservation · sustainable development · seven generations · sacred sites · medicine wheel · pipe ceremony · water rights · reconciliation · constitutional law · activism · broken promises · ratification · legal precedent · mineral rights · reparations · colonial history
- Alberta HistoryEdmonton, Calgary, Banff, homesteaders, settlers
- Canadian FrontierBritish Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon
- indigenous landsancestral territories, ancestral territory, traditional territories, traditional territory, indigenous reserves
- land rightseasement, easements, freehold, right of way, leasehold
- protected landsnational park, national parks, wildlife refuge, wildlife refuges, nature reserve
- SiouxLakota, Dakota, Oglala, Sioux, Teton
treaty landsannexed territory
Region taken and incorporated
ceded lands · federal land · public domain · private property
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