The Land Rights Movement is a social movement that seeks to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples to their traditional lands and resources. It is a global movement that has been active since the late 19th century, when Indigenous peoples began to organize to protect their land from colonization and exploitation. The movement has
In Australia, Indigenous land rights or Aboriginal land rights are the rights and interests in land of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people; the term may also include the struggle for those rights. Connection to the land and waters is vital in Australian Aboriginal culture and to that of Torres Strait Islander people, and there has been a long battle to gain legal and moral recognition of ownership of the lands and waters occupied by the many peoples prior to colonisation of Australia starting in 1788, and the annexation of the Torres Strait Islands by the colony of Queensland in the 1870s.