Indigenous people: governance and politics Books

This historical document, "In the Matter of the Award Made by the Senate of the United States in Favor of the Choctaw Nation of Indians," offers a detailed account of the legal and political interactions between the United States government and the...

This book offers an Indigenous supplement to the rich and growing area of visual legal scholarship. Organized around three narratives, each with an associated politico-poetic reading, the book addresses three major global issues: climate change, the...

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach.

For 265,000 indigenous people in Australia it's not a lucky country.Indigenous Peoples: In the Wake of Mabo is a contribution to the debate in Australia of issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This collection of papers...

The 1980s was a time of significant social, political and cultural change. In Australia, the law was pivotal to these changes. The two High Court cases that this book explores - Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen (1982) and the Tasmanian Dams case (1983) - are...

Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and survival. Commonly, nomadic peoples are facing pressure from the predominant sedentary world over...

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Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous lands of the Americas is a collection of essays and artists' contributions that documents the practices of extractivism on indigenous lands of the American continent, and the opposition to the...

"An Account of the Abipones" Volume I, authored by means of Martin Dobrizhoffer, gives a charming exploration of the Abipones, an indigenous people of South America, in the 18th century. Dobrizhoffer, an Austrian Jesuit missionary and ethnographer,...

Le livre ""Code Matrimonial: Ou Recueil Des Edits, Ordonnances Et Declarations Sur Le Mariage (1766)"" �����crit par Pierre Le Ridant est un recueil de lois et de d�����clarations sur le mariage. Il a �����t����� publi����� en 1766 et contient des...

""Outline Of A System Of Legislation, For Securing Protection To The Aboriginal Inhabitants Of All Countries Colonized By Great Britain"" is a book written by Standish Motte in 1840. The book proposes a system of legislation that would provide protection...

Winstverzekering is een boek geschreven door Johannes Cornelis Hubregtse en uitgegeven in 1887. Het boek gaat over de verzekeringsindustrie en de verschillende soorten winstverzekeringen die beschikbaar zijn. Het biedt een gedetailleerde beschrijving van...

This is the story of Corke's Meadow, a Romany Gypsy community in south east London 1923-1959 that was eliminated through a process of eviction, segregation and assimilation.

SECTION 7: The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to proclaim new Indian reservations on lands acquired pursuant to any authority conferred by this Act, or to add such lands to existing reservations ...  - The Indian Reorganization...

Over the last decade, Australian governments have introduced a series of land reforms in communities on Indigenous land. This book is the first in-depth study of these significant and far reaching reforms. It explains how the reforms came about, what...

This book is the first comparative law study of collateral consequences of criminal conviction in all federally recognized Indian tribes in the lower 48 U.S. states, and the mechanisms for restoring civil rights in tribal law.

Everybody belongs to a minority of some sort so there is sympathy for removing "The tyranny of the majority". But this results in the "tyranny of a minority or minorities" and the destruction of democracy. This book explores...

""A Compilation Of Pension, Pay And Bounty Laws: Together With Full Instructions, Forms And Decisions, Relative To Presenting Government Claims"" is a book published in 1862 by Snyder, Cook and Company. This book is a comprehensive guide to the laws,...

Hearings Before The Committee On Indian Affairs, United States Senate: On The Bills 2087, And 2963 (1908) is a book that contains transcripts of the hearings conducted by the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The hearings were held to...

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples' human rights and for sound national and international legal governance. The book reviews the legal status of customary law and its...

Wherever there is a person's right, there is a corresponding duty imposed upon that person to respect the rights of others. This co-existence of rights and duties may be explained better by the principle of reciprocity of rights and duties. Such is the...

This book addresses the rights of indigenous peoples to marine space and associated marine resources under international law.

In an era of climate change, the need to manage our water resources effectively for future generations has become an increasingly significant challenge. Indigenous management practices have been successfully used to manage inland water systems around the...

Indigenous cultures meticulously protect and preserve their traditions. Those traditions often have deep connections to the homelands of indigenous peoples, thus forming strong relationships between culture, land, and communities. Autoethnography can...

The right of indigenous peoples under international human rights law to give or withhold their Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) to natural resource extraction in their territories is increasingly　recognized　by intergovernmental organizations,...

Indigenous Peoples in Liberal Democratic States is a comparative study of the interactions between indigenous peoples and political regimes of the Province of British Columbia, Canada and the hill areas of composite Assam, India. Utilizing historical,...

In recent years the concept and study of "civil society" has received a lot of attention from political scientists, economists, and sociologists, but less so from anthropologists. A ground-breaking ethnographic approach to civil society as it is formed...

As we sit on the brink of extinction due to our creation of the climate crisis, We Are We serves as an instruction manual on how all of us can reconcile with our Mother Earth and save the future for our children. Wanmbli Chante Winan provides insights...

The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of the southeastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s, they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in...

This book, Noongar people, Noongar land, arose from the protracted struggle of the Indigenous Noongar people of the South West of Western Australia to gain recognition of their native title rights and interests under the Australian federal...

The development and adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) was a huge success for the global indigenous movement. This book offers an insightful and nuanced contemporary evaluation of the progress and...

The Pukará of Quitor: An Indigenous Self-Determination Case Study tells the story of the Indigenous Atacameño Community of Quitor and their efforts to regain control over an ancient and impressive piece of cultural property, the Pukará of Quitor-a large...

The Federal Acknowledgment Process (FAP) is one of the most important and contentious issues facing Native Americans today. A complicated system of criteria and procedures, the FAP is utilized by federal officials to determine whether a Native community...

This book offers an international breadth of historical and theoretical insights into recent efforts to 'decolonise' legal education across the world.

A large and profitable Indigenous heritage management industry has emerged in the wake of the resources boom of recent decades, with thousands of Indigenous heritage impact assessments conducted every year. Yet few governments have successfully reformed...

In his memoir, Alvin Ziontz reflects on his more than thirty years representing Indian tribes, from a time when Indian law was little known through landmark battles that upheld tribal sovereignty. He discusses the growth and maturation of tribal...

This collection brings methods and questions from humanities, law and social sciences disciplines to examine different instances of lawmaking. Contributors explore the problematic of past law in present historical analysis across indigenous Australia and...

The Australian Federal Native Title Act 1993 marked a revolution in the recognition of the rights of Australia's Indigenous peoples. The legislation established a means whereby Indigenous Australians could make application to the Federal Court for the...