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Aboriginal land claims are claims of Native or Aboriginal peoples (also referred to as Indigenous peoples) about their right of ownership of the land they inhabited
Land rights

Land rights are those property rights that pertain to real estate land.Because land is a limited resource and property rights include the right to exclude others, land rights are a form of monopoly....
 before the arrival of settlers, primarily Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
ans.

This process is most active in countries such as Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 and Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, where many native populations have survived that have been greatly displaced from their historical territory by the arrival of European settlers.

New Zealand
In New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 a permanent commission of inquiry called the Waitangi Tribunal
Waitangi Tribunal

The Waitangi Tribunal is a New Zealand permanent commission of inquiry established by an Act of Parliament in 1975. It is charged with investigating and making recommendations on claims brought by Maori relating to actions or omissions of the Crown, in the period since 1840, that breach the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi....
 was established by an Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament

An act of Parliament is a statute wikt:enacted as primary legislation by a national or sub-national parliament. It is broadly equivalent to an act of Congress in the United States....
 in 1975.






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Aboriginal land claims are claims of Native or Aboriginal peoples (also referred to as Indigenous peoples) about their right of ownership of the land they inhabited
Land rights

Land rights are those property rights that pertain to real estate land.Because land is a limited resource and property rights include the right to exclude others, land rights are a form of monopoly....
 before the arrival of settlers, primarily Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
ans.

This process is most active in countries such as Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 and Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, where many native populations have survived that have been greatly displaced from their historical territory by the arrival of European settlers.

New Zealand


In New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
 a permanent commission of inquiry called the Waitangi Tribunal
Waitangi Tribunal

The Waitangi Tribunal is a New Zealand permanent commission of inquiry established by an Act of Parliament in 1975. It is charged with investigating and making recommendations on claims brought by Maori relating to actions or omissions of the Crown, in the period since 1840, that breach the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi....
 was established by an Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament

An act of Parliament is a statute wikt:enacted as primary legislation by a national or sub-national parliament. It is broadly equivalent to an act of Congress in the United States....
 in 1975. It is charged with investigating and making recommendations on claims brought by indigenous
Indigenous peoples

File:Kaiapos.jpegThe term indigenous peoples or autochthonous peoples can be used to describe any ethnic group of people who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection, alongside immigrants which have populated the region and which are greater in number....
 Maori
Maori

The Maori are the indigenous people Polynesian people of Aotearoa . The group probably arrived in south-western Polynesia in several waves at some time before 1300....
 relating to actions or omissions of the Crown, in the period since 1840, that breach the promises made in the Treaty of Waitangi
Treaty of Waitangi

The Treaty of Waitangi is a treaty first signed on February 6, 1840, by representatives of the United Kingdom The Crown, and various Maori chiefs from the northern North Island of New Zealand....
. The Treaty was designed by the former ruling colonists
Colony

In politics and in history, a colony is a Territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies....
  to give credence to Aotearoa
Aotearoa

Aotearoa is the most widely known and accepted Maori language name for New Zealand. It is used by both Maori and non-Maori, and is becoming increasingly widespread in the bilingual names of national organisations, such as the National Library of New Zealand / Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa....
 becoming a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 colony
Colony

In politics and in history, a colony is a Territory under the immediate political control of a state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies....
, was signed in 1840 between representatives of the British Crown
British monarchy

The Monarchy of the United Kingdom is the constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom and its British overseas territory.The present monarch, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, has reigned since 6 February 1952....
 and Maori chiefs of the North Island. Many aboriginal land claims have been settled through this tribunal
Tribunal

Tribunal in the general sense is any person or institution with the authority to judge, adjudication on, or determine claims or disputes - whether or not it is called a tribunal in its title....
  process, with crown land being either returned to its original Maori owners or compensation paid by the New Zealand Government.

See also

  • Collective rights
  • Indigenous Australians
    Indigenous Australians

    Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
  • Native title
    Native title

    Native title is a concept in the law of Australia that recognises in certain cases there was and is a continued beneficial legal interest in land held by local indigenous Australians which survived the acquisition of title to the land by the Crown at the time that the Crown acquired sovereignty of Australia....
     and :Category:Native title
  • Maori
    Maori

    The Maori are the indigenous people Polynesian people of Aotearoa . The group probably arrived in south-western Polynesia in several waves at some time before 1300....
    , Aotearoa
    Aotearoa

    Aotearoa is the most widely known and accepted Maori language name for New Zealand. It is used by both Maori and non-Maori, and is becoming increasingly widespread in the bilingual names of national organisations, such as the National Library of New Zealand / Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa....
     / New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
  • Oren Lyons
    Oren Lyons

    Oren R. Lyons is a Native Americans in the United States Faithkeeper of the Iroquois#Clans of the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois. Once a college lacrosse player, Lyons is now a recognized advocate of indigenous people rights....
  • Eva Rickard
    Eva Rickard

    Eva Rickard was a New Zealand - Aotearoa Maori of Tainui ancestry; a mother of 9, a grandmother, a spiritual guardian of New Zealand Maori traditions, a political land rights activist and a valuable member of the Whaingaroa community where she was born and raised....
  • Native Americans
    Native Americans in the United States

    Native Americans in the United States are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States United States, including parts of Alaska and the island state of Hawaii....
  • Indian reservation
    Indian reservation

    An Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native Americans of the United States tribe under the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs....
  • Aboriginal peoples in Canada
    Aboriginal peoples in Canada

    Aboriginal people in Canada, also known as First Nations, Inuit and M?tis, are people who belong to recognized indigenous groups in the Canada Constitution Act, 1982, Section Twenty-five of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Section Thirty-five of the Constitution Act, 1982, respectively as First Nations, M?tis people , and...
  • Delgamuukw v. British Columbia
    Delgamuukw v. British Columbia

    Delgamuukw v. British Columbia Case citation, also known as Delgamuukw vs. the Queen is a famous leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada where the Court made its most definitive statement on the nature of Aboriginal title in Canada....
  • Mesoamerica
    Mesoamerica

    Mesoamerica or Meso-America is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian society flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries....
  • Unceded territory
    Unceded territory

    Unceded territory refers to land in North America that was never ceded to a government entity by the indigenous peoples who originally lived on this land, and that has never been set apart, legislated, founded, created or established as a reserve....