Sentence examples for rightful land from inspiring English sources

Kurds say they were forced out of Kirkuk under the government of Saddam Hussein, and have returned only to claim their rightful land.

The farmers refused to the sell their rightful land, and locals started showing opposition due to the fact it would cost money to deliver important foods.

As one Bushman told Survival International recently, the government's attempt to block the evicted community from returning to its rightful land "makes me feel homeless...

Leaders of the United Native Americans and the American Indian movement occupied the site behind Mount Rushmore in the early 1970's, voicing their protest and calling for the return of their rightful land and an end to institutionalized racism in South Dakota.

It also meant attempting to destroy Native knowledge and epistemologies as a way to claim rightful ownership over the land, a land which became designated as "vast wilderness" that had scarcely been utilized (Anderson 2005).

Rokala cited a pledge Zinke signed in 2012 to "legally and administratively oppose" federal agencies and "restore the rightful powers over the land to the state and private ownership," an idea fiercely opposed by conservationists.

But we know we are the rightful owners of the land".

He explained that he had come to agree that Schiavon was the rightful owner of the land.

They were representatives of the Mexican entrepreneur Mauricio Schiavon, who claimed to be the rightful owner of the land on which Silva had built the Astrolodge.

They never ceded their identity over to the British people via a treaty, so they are still the rightful owners of their land.

A Mesoamerican symbol of primordial power, she is honored as the original, rightful owner of the land, an embodiment of the spirit of the place and the identity of a people.