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
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
But he concluded the Nuchatlaht did demonstrate use and occupancy before colonization sufficient to assert aboriginal title on smaller areas.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 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
Those clauses were removed in the 1960s, leaving no mention of aboriginals at all.
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
And we may remark here that the various colonial governments provide for the support of all the aboriginals living within their territory.
From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Knox, Thomas Wallace
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