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

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

Maps are a touchstone for Joanne Greenbaum and the aboriginal painters Jimmy and Angie Tchooga.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

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