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The land includes exclusive native title over approximately 45,000 square kilometres, east and west of the town of Norseman. In 2020 the Ngadju Indigenous Protected Area was dedicated on Ngadju land. [2] The Ngadju serve as traditional custodians of the area, which covers 43,993.01 km 2, about a quarter of the Great Western Woodlands. [3]
In 2014 and 2017 the Federal Court recognised Ngadju traditional ownership of over 102,000 square kilometres, after a long legal proceeding which began in 1995. The land includes exclusive native title over approximately 45,000 square kilometres, east and west of the town of Norseman. In 2020 the Ngadju Indigenous Protected Area was dedicated ...
The Ngaju people (also Ngaju Dayak or Dayak Ngaju or Biaju) are an indigenous ethnic group of Borneo from the Dayak group. [3] In a census from 2000, when they were first listed as a separate ethnic group, they made up 18.02% of the population of Central Kalimantan province.
Chapter II, Section 3h of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act of 1997 defines "indigenous peoples" (IPs) and "indigenous cultural communities" (ICCs) as: . A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership since ...
During American colonial rule in the Philippines, there was an increase in American immigration to the Philippines.Retiring soldiers and other military men were among the first Americans to become long-term Philippine residents and settlers; these included Buffalo Soldiers and former Volunteers, primarily from the Western states.
Datu (Baybayin: ᜇᜆᜓ) is the title for chiefs, sovereign princes, and monarchs [19] in the Visayas [20] and Mindanao [21] regions of the Philippines. Together with lakan , apo (central and northern Luzon), [22] sultan, and rajah, they are titles used for native royalty, and are still used frequently in Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan.
In 1909, in the case of Cariño vs. Insular Government, [1] the court has recognized long occupancy of land by an Indigenous member of the cultural communities as one of private ownership (which, in legal concept, is termed "native title"). This case paved the way for the government to review the so-called "native title" or "private right."
The Manila Army and Navy Club founded in 1898 was the first American social club to be established in the Philippines for the exclusive use of the U.S. military personnel and civilians, and later Filipinos. [1] Since the time it was established, it was one of the centers of Manila's social life. It was the site of many important events in ...