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
With the ruling, the Nuchatlaht Nation of just 160 people has become the second-largest aboriginal titleholder in B.C.
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
It was an aboriginal darkness now that Toomer studied, waiting for a face or a voice to materialize.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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State treaties could recognise aboriginals as the original inhabitants and give them the kind of say in their own affairs that the federal government denies them.
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
Even before the court ruling, the Gateway project was under a cloud of uncertainty because of local opposition from aboriginals, environmentalists and lawmakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2016
Mr. W. H. Miner's 'The American Indians, North of Mexico,' published by the Cambridge University Press in 1917, contains a bibliography of works on the aboriginals.
From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan
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