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
Nuchatlaht’s victory marks the first time a B.C. trial court has recognized a First Nation’s aboriginal title — a type of ownership under Canadian law — of its ancestral territory.
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
At the opposite extreme, some aboriginal fishing groups of southeastern Australia devised elaborate technologies for managing fish populations, including the construction of canals, weirs, and standing traps.
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
Mr. Syme tells us that when the aboriginals used to hunt the kangaroos, they killed them with the boomerang or the spear.
From The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent by Thomas Wallace Knox
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