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An Aboriginal reserve, also called simply reserve, was a government-sanctioned settlement for Aboriginal Australians, created under various state and federal legislation. Along with missions and other institutions, they were used from the 19th century to the 1960s to keep Aboriginal people separate from the white Australian population.
Aboriginal reserves, like the missions and other institutions, had the effect of isolating, confining and controlling Aboriginal people. [9] People who were relocated to these reserves lost the human rights of freedom of movement and work, control over their personal property and the custody of their children. [ 10 ]
In Canada, an Indian reserve (French: réserve indienne) [nb 1] or First Nations reserve (French: réserve des premières nations) is defined by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, [2] that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band."
New Xade, a village established as an indigenous reservation for Khoe-speaking San (Bushmen) ethnic groups and other first peoples relocated from their traditional lands on the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).The primary ethnic groups residing in the settlement are the G/ui (Dcuikhoe), G//ana (Dxanakhoe), and Bakgalagadi.
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres ...
Aboriginal Australians along the coast and rivers were also expert fishermen. Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people relied on the dingo as a companion animal, using it to assist with hunting and for warmth on cold nights. Aboriginal women's implements, including a coolamon lined with paperbark and a digging stick. This woven basket ...
This Indigenous Protected Area is Australia’s largest land reserve, spanning 10,150,000 hectares (25,100,000 acres). [12] It protects important pieces of the Northern Territory’s natural legacy. Included in the Southern Tanami reserve are much of Lake Mackay—Australia’s second-largest lake—and an enormous swathe of the Tanami Desert.
A third type of land tenure, mainly held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in remote and regional Queensland, is the Deed of Grant in Trust (DOGIT). [35] These were established primarily to administer former Aboriginal reserves and missions. They came about through legislation passed by the Queensland Government in 1984. [36]