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Local tribes and nonprofits have partnered to fight the roundup plan, arguing that the Indigenous community should be tapped to manage the animals that roam their ancestral lands.

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"It's an ancestral diet," Nat says, "which is what we survived off - it's primal."

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The group claimed ancestral rights to land and insisted that the Kingdom of Kubala had been born.

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A former US filmmaker has launched a High Court battle against an English council to gain control of the ancestral stately home he spent seven years trying to save from ruin.

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In Asian culture, there are lots of shrines in homes, ancestral shrines with pictures of grandmas and candles.

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