tribal land
Ancestral community grounds
Tribal land is territory belonging to or reserved for indigenous peoples, held collectively by a tribe rather than owned individually.
In the United States, tribal lands include reservations established by treaty or federal action, where tribal governments exercise sovereignty: The casino operates on tribal land.
The term appears in legal contexts concerning jurisdiction, resource rights, and self-governance.
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- sacred sitesReligiously significant locations
- sacred groundLand deemed spiritually inviolable
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
ancestral heritage · seven generations · reservation · subsistence farming · treaty rights · water rights · hunting rights · indigenous territory · federal recognition · oral traditions · burial grounds · community infrastructure · traditional knowledge · ceded lands · pueblo · ceremonies · medicine wheel · boundaries
- land typespark, croplands, reserve, rangelands, forest
- Native AmericansCherokee, Apache, Navajo, Sioux, Mohawk
- homelandmotherland, fatherland, homeland, home country, birthplace
- Ancient IsraelIsraelites, Jerusalem, Israel, twelve tribes, Judea
- Biblical agricultureplowing, sowing, harvesting, reaping, threshing
- commonscommon goods, shared resources, commons, town common, village common
tribal landprivate property
Individually owned assets
private land · individual ownership · private estate · real estate · commercial property
tribal landfederal land
Government-owned territory
state land · crown land · government land · public land · annexed territory
tribal landcommercial real estate
Non-residential buildings for commerce
urban development · strip mall · gentrified area · urban sprawl