aboriginal
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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
That court case took 25 years and affirmed Tsilhqot’in’s aboriginal title and control of 733 square miles of their ancestral lands in central B.C., a precedent that stands as a landmark around the world.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Similar to the Coquille, the Karuk went decades without a reservation, even after the U.S. government took ownership of the tribe’s aboriginal hunting and fishing land in a forested swath of the Klamath River Basin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 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
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
The bill obliges the state to recognise a representative body to negotiate on behalf of aboriginals and establishes a fund to help aboriginal communities prepare for the talks.
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
After the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s findings were released in 2015, universities across the country publicly vowed to close the graduation gap between mainstream Canadians and aboriginals, only 9.8 percent of whom have university degrees.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2017
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
His description in general resembles those which have frequently been given of the aboriginals of the New World; there are two or three particulars, however, worthy of citation.
From Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Albion Ober
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