Indigenous treaty and land cession records guide

Knowledge package outline

Topic

Indigenous and local land knowledge

Purpose

Treaties and cession records between Indigenous nations and states define land, hunting and fishing rights that are still asserted and litigated.

Package contents

Finding aids for ratified and unratified treaties, land cession map series, treaty-to-territory overlays, guidance on reading treaties alongside oral histories held by the nations concerned.

Dependencies

Indigenous land rights history; map reading.