Sentence examples for original lands from inspiring English sources

Those who took the cash regret their decision, Forero said, because their lives have not improved and "they lost connection to their original lands, ancestors and traditions".

It has set off a sharp controversy over property rights, the limits of government authority and the rights of Indians to their original lands.

On 12 June, dozens of Guarani-Kaiowá from the Caarapó indigenous reserve invaded the Fazenda Yvu, a neighbouring farm that belongs to one of the founders of a local agricultural association, in an act they describe as "retaking" their original lands.

The newly accreted lands of the unions have a lower economic value compare to the original lands.

The Acadian refugees were offered land on the Isthmus of Chignecto in early 1760, but most requested their original lands around the Three Rivers, which the governor granted.

And he said restoring formerly mined land brings "better vegetation, better habitat for wildlife," and that "there's more wildlife on the reclaimed mined lands in Wyoming than there are on the original lands".

Did the original land owners miss an opportunity?

One of his battalions, split into two task forces, had made the original landing.

The owners used $1.2m of that to pay off the loan for the original land purchase.

This is not his original land; the authorities have fiddled it, he says.

As a result, the uncounted numbers of those surviving on their original land are now few.