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A Mi'kmaw academic hopes his new Halifax university course on treaties between the British and Indigenous peoples in the region will help students understand their role and relevance in today's society, nearly three centuries after being signed.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mi-kmaq-treaties-class-education-1.6953125?cmp=rss
And with a new government starting to make positive changes for Indigenous peoples, she’s cautiously optimistic.
“As a monolithic depiction, the ‘princess’ would historically have stood as a visual symbol for tobacco, reducing Indigenous peoples to a singular motif, a mental image that still stands.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/museums-local-growth.html
But only recently have Indigenous peoples and local communities begun to receive mainstream recognition for that role.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/8/forest-recognition-for-papua-tribe-raises-hopes-for-climate
But the concept of special rights for Indigenous peoples has ignited tensions among minority groups.
Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/19/norway-sami-indigenous-rights-truth-reconciliation-report/
Dank tells a specific narrative of her Gudanji and Wakaja heritage and does not try to speak for all Indigenous peoples or to describe their experiences.
Source: https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/feeling-country-debra-danks-award-winning-we-come-place
Hundreds of years after being given to European nations by Indigenous peoples from across the northeast, a collection of wampum belts have returned to Canada for the first time.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mccord-stewart-museum-wampum-belt-exhibit-1.7001954?cmp=rss
Indigenous peoples who face difficulties proving their physical presence would also face barriers to recognition of their land rights.
Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/05/29/brazil-reject-harmful-bill-indigenous-rights
It expanded the park eight years later to include inhabited lowland areas, forcing the expulsion of the Batwa Indigenous peoples.
Source: https://grist.org/indigenous/fortress-conservation-legacy-violence-comic-indigenous-land-30x30/
“It is also a day to think about the racism and oppression that Indigenous peoples still face across Canada.
“It will be Indigenous peoples, local communities, women and youth who are the real changemakers,” said Lucy Mulenkei, the Kenyan co-chair of IIFB.
Source: http://nationnews.ca/politics/first-nations-highlight-climate-solutions-at-cop28-in-dubai/
“Many Indigenous peoples have practices where the only way that they’ve been able to survive is by having a successful conversation with the environment.
Meanwhile, Powell’s students learned from Patterson about the parallel expulsion of Indigenous peoples from their lands and the disappearance of chestnut trees.
Source: https://grist.org/indigenous/transgenic-american-chestnut-indigenous-rights/
National Indigenous Peoples Day events will take place across Saskatchewan where people will join to celebrate the heritage, culture and pride of Indigenous peoples.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9780728/national-indigenous-peoples-day-events-2023-saskatchewan/
Nearly 80% of the world’s biodiversity is stewarded by Indigenous peoples and local communities, each practicing their own traditional ecological knowledge, or TEK.
On the other hand, data extraction done without the consultation of tribes deepens mistrust between data researchers and Indigenous peoples.
Source: https://afro.com/indigenous-data-warriors-fight-for-data-sovereignty-and-against-data-genocide/
Providing students in Canada with age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, treaties and Indigenous peoples was one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 calls to action in 2015.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigenous-book-bans-bc-1.6985294?cmp=rss
“Sometimes Indigenous peoples can’t afford to come to the United Nations or their capital to meet with government officials,”
“The APA believes, and numerous international human rights bodies have found, that the Government of Guyana does not adequately respect the rights of Indigenous peoples and therefore it does not meet TREES.
The company has committed to embracing Indigenous peoples and values within its project areas with the goal of sustainable critical minerals development that honours the lives, memories, sacred sites, traditions and hopes of landowners.
Source: https://investingnews.com.au/oceana-lithium-fully-funded-exploration-in-brazil-canada-and-australia