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  2. Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Dieppe maps had no claimed sources, no "discoverer" of the land shown ... and the iconography on the various maps is based on Sumatran animals and ethnography, not the reality of Australia. In this sense the maps did not really expand European knowledge of Australia, the portrayal of "Jave La Grande" having no greater status that any other ...

  3. Dieppe maps - Wikipedia

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    The Dieppe Maps known to have existed into modern times include the following [1] [2] [3] Jean Mallard, Map of the World c.1540, British Library, London [4] Jean Rotz, Boke of Idrography, 1542. British Library, London [5] Guillaume Brouscon, world chart, 1543, Huntington Library, Los Angeles, California [6] Pierre Desceliers, "Royal" world ...

  4. History of Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia

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    The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 established the basis upon which Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory could claim rights to land based on traditional occupation. The statute, the first of the Aboriginal land rights acts , was significant in that it allowed a claim of title if claimants could provide evidence of their traditional ...

  5. Australian Indigenous sovereignty - Wikipedia

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    Today, Indigenous sovereignty generally relates to "inherent rights deriving from spiritual and historical connections to land". [1] Indigenous studies academic Aileen Moreton-Robinson has written that the first owners of the land were ancestral beings of Aboriginal peoples, and "since spiritual belief is completely integrated into human daily activity, the powers that guide and direct the ...

  6. Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic - Wikipedia

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    Map of Subarctic regions. Indigenous peoples of the Subarctic are the Aboriginal peoples who live in the Subarctic regions of the Americas, Asia, and Europe, located south of the true Arctic at about 50°N to 70°N latitude.

  7. Timeline of First Nations history - Wikipedia

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    Land claim disputes, as well as a perceived intervention of the Crown into aboriginal affairs threatened relationships between The Canadian Crown and Aboriginal peoples. [ 204 ] 2004 Justice David R. Wright 's "explosive" report of the 20-month inquiry into the death by hypothermia of Saulteaux First Nations teenager Neil Stonechild on 25 ...

  8. Indigenous land rights in Australia - Wikipedia

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    This was the first major recognition of Aboriginal land rights by any Australian government, [15] and predated the 1967 Referendum. It allowed for parcels of Aboriginal land previously held by the SA Government, to be handed to the Aboriginal Lands Trust of SA under the Act. The Trust was governed by a Board composed solely of Aboriginal people ...

  9. European exploration of Australia - Wikipedia

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    This is a typical map from the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. Australasia during the Golden Age of Dutch exploration and discovery (c. 1590s–1720s): including Nova Guinea , Nova Hollandia (mainland Australia), Van Diemen's Land , and Nova Zeelandia (New Zealand).