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Kiravian Aboriginals or Aboriginal Kiravites are a polyphyletic group of peoples who are collectively considered the indigenous inhabitants of the island continent of Great Kirav and its surrounding islands present in that territory prior to its discovery and settlement by Coscivians.

Definition
The term Kiravite Aboriginal refers to those peoples endemic to the island continent of Great Kirav prior to the arrival of Coscivians in 13XX anno Domini. The Celtic and Finno-Ugric peoples who were living in parts of that area before 13XX are excluded from this definition, as are the former Nordic inhabitants of the North Coast and the Snávic people of Æonara.

In sociological and public policy discourse, the term "Aboriginal" is usually reserved for Aboriginal groups that have not been significantly Coscivised, excluding groups such as the Kiorgiem and Indokwém who identify as Coscivians, practice a largely or mostly Coscivian culture, and may have significant Éorsan Coscivian ancestry. However, in ethnological and historical discourse, these groups are often considered Aboriginals.

Prehistory
The ultimate origin of the Aboriginal Kiravites remains a mystery. Genetic surveys have identified at least three distinct "founder populations" or "waves of settlement", depending on the model, but have been unable to reliably date the arrival of these groups or definitively match them with related populations elsewhere in the world. Archæological evidence, primarily the carbon-dating of biotic material embedded in primitive stone tools, seems to point to an arrival date for the earliest pioneers between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, though it remains unclear whether the makers of these tools were Homo sapiens or other hominids, and even less clear whether their genetic line continues in modern Aboriginals.

Isolation Period
Kiravian historians and anthropologists categorise the time between the immigration of the last Aboriginal "founder population" and the arrival of Arctic and Levantine peoples on Kiravian shores as the Isolation Period. The boundaries of this period are poorly defined, with the beginning date being purely theoretical and the end date rather vague due to lack of hard data. Nonetheless, the period of isolation has an upper bound of XXXX AD, as evidenced by findings of Celtic artifacts on the Mariava coast.

Levantine and Arctic Contact
Sometime between the X and Y centuries AD, Aboriginals living on the northern and eastern seaboards came into

Culture
Kiravite Aboriginals are a polyphyletic group, divided among five apparently unrelated language families (and three language isolates) and exhibiting considerable variation in appearance. Their traditional religious practices can differ greatly between tribes, encompassing shamanism, totemism, vitalism, monotheism, universism, animism, spiritism, and combinations thereof.

Contemporary Social Characteristics
The social characteristics of contemporary Aboriginals divide their population into three “castes” based primarily on their ancestors allegiances during the Continental War and the political status they came to hold in the Coscivian-dominated order afterward (see Political Status below).

Pro-Kiravian Tribes, as well as tribes in the Aterandic mountains and eastern coastal regions that had been assimilated into or displaced by Coscivian civilisation early in history, also referred to as Treaty Tribes, were rewarded with high political status after the war. They immediately received (or already held) full Kiravian citizenship, and considerable political autonomy under self-governing Tribal Authorities and Autonomous Countyships. Whether they integrated into Cosco-Kiravian society as new tuaþaya or opted for greater cultural autonomy, these tribes were well-positioned to retain many aspects of their cultural heritage while benefitting fully from Kiravian economic advancement. Today, their economic, housing, health, and education indicators are generally on-par with those of Coscivians living nearby, and even exceed them in select localities.

Neutral Tribes that avoided taking sides in the Continental War, as well as those living in more remote mountain and inland regions of the West who were uninvolved in the conflict, constitute the middle caste of Aboriginals. After the war, most were gradually confined to less-autonomous reservations or forced to adopt private landholding. Marginalised and generally ignored by Cosco-Kiravian society, they preserved much of their culture through relative isolation, but were also left behind as the Kiravian economy developed. Today, they are generally poorer than neighbouring Coscivians, have lower (oftentimes wholly premodern) standards of living. The Neutral Tribes of the northern West Coast and Northwest Isles are an exception, being more or less on par with Coscivians living in those areas in terms of economic and social status.

Defeated Tribes were the founding tribes of Drail and their allies. After the war, they were evicted from their lands to make room for Coscivian settlement, denied citizenship, and lived as captured enemy aliens for generations, often being subjected to forced labour and migration. They were only granted Kiravian nationality in 21073 and limited citizenship in 21126. Due to their landlessness, they are highly urbanised, making up a plurality of Aboriginals living in Metropolitan Core regions according to the KF Census. They suffer from generational poverty, weak family structures, social breakdown, high crime rates, drug abuse, and abysmal educational attainment rates.

Population
The size of the Aboriginal Kiravite population varies dramatically depending on what criteria are used to define Aboriginals. Excluding Coscivised Aboriginals, up to 42% of Coscivian-Kiravians are of at least 1/8 Aboriginal ancestry. 60% of people in Kiorgia State are of ¼ or ½ Aboriginal ancestry. According to the KF census, some 5.4% of the Kiravian population are Aboriginal Kiravites whose tribes have not been added to the Schedule of Coscivian Peoples. It is important to note that Kiravian society is strongly patrilineal, so even people of majority Aboriginal extraction may consider themselves Coscivians if they have Coscivian ancestry in their male line. In any case, the highest estimates for people of mostly Aboriginal ancestry that practice a mostly Aboriginal culture do not exceed 7%.

Political Status
Today, all Aboriginal Kiravians are citizens of the Kiravian Federacy, with the four Draili tribes being the last to gain citizenship in 21126. Overall, 48% of Aboriginal Kiravites (mostly Defeated and Treaty Tribes) live outside of tribal jurisdiction and are subject to the same laws as other Kiravian citizens. The 52% that live on tribal lands enjoy special autonomy and exemptions from state and federal laws that vary by the type of tribal jurisdiction they inhabit.

The larger Treaty Tribes govern Tribal Authorities, defined by the Aboriginal Affairs Code as “domestic, dependent, but autocephalous subjects of federal law”. Though they are not states themselves and have no independent input into federal politics as states, territories, and other federal subjects do, Tribal Authorities have the same standing as states under federal law. They exercise most administrative powers of states – levying taxes, operating police forces, issuing licences, and passing laws – within areas under their jurisdiction, which include both one or more autonomous counties and larger non-autonomous areas of states where the Tribal Authority’s jurisdiction is extraterritorial.

Smaller Treaty Tribes have Autonomous Countyships – Areas within a state that can operate internally as if they were their own state, but are not subjects of federal law.

Neutral Tribes, small Treaty Tribes in the East, and two Defeated Tribes have access to reservations. The nature and powers of reservations vary widely. Some are virtually indistinguishable from autonomous countyships, having a great deal of autonomy. Others have more limited powers, behaving much like ordinary countyships or municipal authorities, and still others are very weak, resembling mere planning districts and homeowner’s associations.

Settlements
Drail (Kiravic: Drayin) is by far the largest Kiravian settlement with an Aboriginal-majority population (78% of its 84,000 people in 21205), followed by Saɣuarśa, the capital of the Xéoxƿém Tribal Authority in Transateranda (84% of its 46,000 people).

Major Kiravian cities with large Aboriginal populations include:
 * Escarda (14.7%)
 * Kaþedra (20.6%)
 * Tetraliþka (23.3%)