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traditional owners

traditional owners is the plural of traditional owner.

Meaning of traditional owner

Noun

traditional owner (plural traditional owners)

  1. (Australia) A descendant of the tribe or ethnic group that occupied a particular region before European settlement, especially when that occupation is recognised by Australian law.
    • The Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act 1976 (ALRA) has provided an avenue for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory to come to a court and give evidence to a Commonwealth appointed judge, known as the Land Commissioner, as to why he should ‘find them’ the traditional owners of certain tracts of...2005, John Bradley, Kathryn Seton, “2: Self-determination or ‘Deep Colonising’: Laind Claims, Colonial Authority and Indigenous Representation”, in Barbara Hocking, editor, Unfinished Constitutional...

Questions about traditional owners

What is traditional owners the plural of?
Traditional owners is the plural of traditional owner.

Words near traditional owners in the dictionary

  1. traditional marriage
  2. traditional marriages
  3. traditional medicine
  4. traditional medicines
  5. traditional owner
  6. traditional owners
  7. traditional publisher
  8. traditional publishers
  9. traditional right
  10. traditional rights
  11. traditional student

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