Aboriginal people, spirituality and the traditional ownership of land

Abstract

Aboriginal people have property rights and interests in land and waters arising from traditional law and custom. Their traditional relationship to land is dual in character, having spiritual and material dimensions; i.e. they belong to the land and they own it too. The root of their traditional aboriginal title is found in the creative acts of the ancestral Stories in the Story‐Time and from the unbroken links of spirit which connect them and their deceased ancestors with specific land and sea country.

Citation

Rigsby, B. (1999), "Aboriginal people, spirituality and the traditional ownership of land", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 26 No. 7/8/9, pp. 963-976. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068299910245741