Phrases with «ancestral lands»

"Ancestral lands" refers to the territory or piece of land that has been historically owned, occupied, or settled by one's ancestors or family for many generations. It is land that holds cultural, emotional, or spiritual significance to a particular group or community. Full definition

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Sentences with «ancestral lands»

  • The Corps ruled the project would impact the treaty - protected fishing rights and ancestral lands of Lummi Nation. (powerpastcoal.org)
  • Hostiles (R for profanity and graphic violence) Panoramic Western, set in 1892, about a veteran cavalry Captain (Christian Bale) who reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) from a fort in New Mexico back to his tribe's ancestral lands in Montana. (baretnewswire.com)
  • A 2005 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize award, Baldenegro was a second - generation environmental activist of the indigenous Tarahumara people, whose ancestral lands reside in the western Sierra Madre mountain range. (newsecuritybeat.org)
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