Aboriginal title
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Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty to that land by another colonising state. The requi
Protests against the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004, which extinguished claims to aboriginal title to the foreshore and seabeds in New Zealand
The Mohegan Sun casino commemorates the site of the world's first common-law indigenous land rights case, decided in 1773.
The Treaty of Waitangi (1840)
The Richtersveld desert
The New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy is a debate in the politics of New Zealand. It concerns the ownership of the country's foreshore and seabed, with many Māori groups claiming that Māori
Aboriginal title
…legislation (beginning with the New Zealand land confiscations) has left the Māori with little to claim except for river beds, lake beds, and the foreshore and seabed. In 1847, in a decision that was not appealed to the Privy Council, the Supreme Court of the colony of New Zealand recognized aboriginal title in R v…
The hīkoi on Cambridge Terrace, heading to Parliament.
Green Party MPs at the hīkoi/protest with a banner reading "Honour The Treaty".