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aboriginal

[ab-uh-rij-uh-nl] / ˌæb əˈrɪdʒ ə nl /
ADJECTIVE
original, first in a place
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK


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There are several ongoing aboriginal title claims in British Columbia, and the Cowichan decision could affect private-property owners in those regions as well.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

Unique visitors to Eagle Feather News, a tiny aboriginal newspaper in Saskatchewan, plummeted from about 20,000 to 12,000 a month in the five months after the Facebook ban.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2024

“The DNA study also provides the Blood Tribe/Kainai with a new line of evidence to help further treaty and aboriginal rights,” the study authors wrote to Science in a collaborative statement.

From Science Magazine Apr. 3, 2024

The area has some of the highest concentrations of Taiwan’s aboriginal population, with several of the island’s Indigenous tribes calling the county home.

From New York Times Apr. 3, 2024

Only on the remote Andaman Islands do languages unrelated to the South Chinese language families persist—the last linguistic survivors of what must have been hundreds of now extinct aboriginal Southeast Asian languages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

State treaties could recognise aboriginals as the original inhabitants and give them the kind of say in their own affairs that the federal government denies them.

From Economist Jul. 5, 2018

The prince then travelled into Australia's Daintree Rainforest where he met the Kuku Yalanji aboriginals.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2018

Parks Canada will determine ownership in conjunction with the Inuit aboriginals in the northernmost Canadian territory of Nunavut and unnamed “government organizations”, the agency said, without giving details.

From The Guardian Sep. 26, 2016

Enbridge’s struggles with Gateway highlight the clout that aboriginals are gaining in the construction of North American energy infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2016

On the following day he went in search of the aboriginals, and met a party of about twenty women, together with a number of children.

From History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 by Sutherland, Alexander




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