Sentences with phrase «ancestral land even»

Even though the locals don't live on the Kauai land, they have a claim to it thanks to the Hawaiian notion of «kuleana» — a custom, reflected in law, recognizing traditional rights to ancestral land even in the absence of deeds or formal property records.

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Determined to keep his promise to her even in her death, Michael returns his mother's ashes to the ancestral home and in the process begins a healing relationship with the land itself.