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The land titles may recognise traditional interest in the land and protect those interests by giving Aboriginal people legal ownership of that land. Also, according to the National Native Title Tribunal : "A successful land rights claim usually results in a special grant of freehold title or perpetual lease.
Land back graffiti with anarchist symbology and an unrelated artist, 2020. Land Back, also referred to with hashtag #LandBack, is a decentralised campaign that emerged in the late 2010s among Indigenous Australians, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Native Americans in the United States, other indigenous peoples and allies who seek to reestablish Indigenous sovereignty, with political and economic ...
The walk-off and strike were landmark events in the struggle for Aboriginal land rights in Australia. The Gurindji strike was not the first or the only demand by Aboriginal people for the return of their lands – but it was the first one to attract wide public support within Australia for land rights.
The Eastern Kuku Yalanji are among Aboriginal peoples who have lived in Queensland's Wet Tropics for at least 5,000 years. Now, the rainforest is being put back in their hands.
Ancestral lands will be returned to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of a massive Klamath River dam removal project.
"Indigenous populations have been using fire as a management tool," he said. "We'd like to see that kind of practice return." Redwoods serve as some of the largest stores of carbon on the planet.
The Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 [9] It is a New South Wales statute that was established to return land to Aboriginal peoples through a process of lodging claims for certain Crown lands and the establishment of Aboriginal Land Councils.
The Aboriginal Australian people whose historic rights over the area have been officially recognised belong to the southern branch of the Pitjantjatjara people. The land includes a large area of land contaminated by British nuclear testing in the 1950s, for which the inhabitants were eventually compensated in 1991.