Dissertations / Theses: 'Indigenous Land of Umariaçu'

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COUTINHO, Taciana de Carvalho. "História ambiental da Cidade dos Índios (etnia Tikuna) frente à urbanização da cidade do governo (município de Tabatinga), Amazonas (1964 – 2017)." Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2018. http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/1972.

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A etnia Tikuna é a maior população indígena brasileira, distribuída nos países vizinhos, Peru e Colômbia. Do lado brasileiro, ocupa a região do Alto Solimões – Amazonas, os quais vivenciaram vicissitudes socioambientais ao longo da calha do rio Solimões. A vasta distribuição dos Tikuna permitiu novas formas de sociabilidades perante o surgimento de novos municípios nas fronteiras com as comunidades indígenas. A tese teve como objetivo analisar as relações estabelecidas entre a cidade dos Índios (etnia Tikuna) frente à urbanização da cidade do Governo (município de Tabatinga), Amazonas (1964 -2017) historiando o contado de diferentes atores sociais, possibilitando entender a dinâmica das transformações vivida pela Terra Indígena de Umariaçu, desde o processo de territorialização à sua demarcação pelo aparato do Estado. O estudo esboçou as vicissitudes decorrentes dos marcos cronológicos: a abertura da pista de pouso do Aeroporto Internacional de Tabatinga, a criação da Colônia Militar e a abertura da Avenida da Amizade. A urbanização desencadeada pelos planos governamentais do período militar adentrou as regiões de florestas ocupadas pelos povos tradicionais, iniciando, assim, as transformações nos ambientes do maior ecossistema do Mundo, a floresta Amazônica. A urbanização da cidade colocou em pauta o modo de vida de inúmeros indígenas, que visualizou a derrubada de importantes espaços simbólicos e, também, de ecossistemas diversos de árvores, igarapés, diminuindo gradativamente a flora e a fauna. Os recursos naturais foram sendo eliminados para colocar em prática a formação dos centros urbanos emergidos na floresta. Por fim, foi dado voz aos principais protagonistas da Terra Indígena de Umariaçu, os Tikuna, em que saberes e olhares se entrelaçaram para entender a dinâmica dos elementos identitários. Para os Tikuna, o presente e o futuro são os desafios a serem reafirmados e reinventados no contexto socioambiental do século vigente, perante a fragilidade imposta pela urbanização que avança sobre a floresta Amazônica.
The Tikuna ethnic group is the largest indigenous Brazilian population, distributed in the neighboring countries, Peru and Colombia. On the Brazilian side, it occupies the region of Alto Solimões - Amazonas, which experienced socio-environmental vicissitudes along the Solimões river channel. The vast distribution of the Tikuna allowed new forms of sociability in the face of the emergence of new municipalities on the borders with indigenous communities. The thesis was aimed to analyze the relations established between the city of the Indians (Tikuna ethnic group) and the urbanization of the city of the Government (Tabatinga municipality), Amazonas (1964-2017), telling the story of different social actors, making it possible to understand the dynamics of transformations lived by the Umariaçu Indigenous Land, from the territorialization process to its demarcation by the state apparatus. The study outlined the vicissitudes arising from the chronological milestones: the opening of the airstrip of the Tabatinga International Airport, the creation of the Military Colony and the opening of the Avenida da Amizade. The urbanization unleashed by the government plans of the military period penetrated the forest regions occupied by the traditional peoples, thus initiating the transformations in the environments of the world's largest ecosystem, the Amazonian forest. The urbanization of the city put in question the way of life of countless Indians, who visualized the overthrow of important symbolic spaces and also of diverse ecosystems of trees, streams, gradually diminishing the flora and fauna. Natural resources were being eliminated to put into practice the formation of urban centers emerging in the forest. Finally, a voice was given to the main protagonists of the Umariaçu Indigenous Land, the Tikuna, in which knowledge and looks intertwined to understand the dynamics of the identity elements. For the Tikuna, the present and the future are the challenges to be reaffirmed and reinvented in the socio-environmental context of the current century, given the fragility imposed by the urbanization that advances on the Amazonian forest.
El Grupo de Tikuna grupo es la población más grande de Brasil, distribuida en los vecinos vecinos, Perú y Colombia. En el lado brasileño, se ocupan de la región de Alto Solimões - Amazonas, que se desarrolla socio-vicisitudes hacia el Solimões river channel. La gran distribución de la Tikuna permitió nuevas formas de sociabilidad en la cara de la emergencia de nuevas municipalidades en las fronteras con comunidades indígenas. En el caso de que se trate de una de las más importantes de la historia de la humanidad, la historia de la sociedad civil, es posible que comprenda la dinámica de transformaciones de vida de la Umariaçu Indígena Land, desde el territorio de la territorialización a su demarcación por el estado de llegada. El estudio subrayó las vicisitudes inherentes de los milenales: la apertura de la airstrip del aeropuerto internacional de Tabatinga, la creación de la Colina y la apertura de la Avenida de la Amistad. La urbanización unleashed por los gobiernos de gobierno de los militares de la época ha penetrado las zonas forestales de los pueblos tradicionales, por lo que se inician las transformaciones en los entornos del ecosistema del ecosistema, los bosques del bosque. La urbanización de la ciudad se pone en cuestión de la forma de vida de los indonesios indocumentados, que visualizan el sobrepaso de los símbolos simbólicos y también de diversos ecosistemas de los ácidos, fluye, disminuye la flora y la fauna. Los recursos naturales se han eliminado para poner en práctica la formación de los centros urbanos emergentes en los bosques. En definitiva, la voz se ha dado a los protagonistas principales de la Umariaçu Indígena Land, la Tikuna, en el que se ve y se intertexto para entender la dinámica de los elementos de identidad. Para el Tikuna, el presente y el futuro son los desafíos para reafirmado y reinventarse en el contexto socioeconómico del siglo actual, dada la fragilidad de la urbanización que se basan en los bosques de bosques.

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Allington, Patrick. "Indigenous land rights in (un)settled Australia /." Title page, contents and synopsis only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arma437.pdf.

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Wachira, George Mukundi. "Vindicating indigenous peoples' land rights in Kenya." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01212009-162305/.

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Duckworth, Cheryl Lynn. "Revitalizing our dances land and dignity in Paraguay /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3427.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--George Mason University, 2008.
Vita: p. 305. Thesis director: Agnieszka Paczynska. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 9, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-304). Also issued in print.

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Fogarty, Jane Catherine. "Towards an Australian republic, constitutionalising indigenous land rights." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0003/MQ40989.pdf.

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Menell, David. "The application of geomatic technologies in an indigenous context : Amazonian Indians and indigenous land rights." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1000.

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Indigenous people have employed Western analogue techniques (maps, charts, etc) to support their land rights ever since their traditional territories came under threat. Although indigenous groups utilise such tools there is still a significant divide between the epistemological conception of these analogue techniques and the ontology of the indigenous people. This research looks at one of the latest technologies to be utilised by indigenous peoples, that of geomatics technologies. It examines their design and application using the analytical techniques of anthropology juxtaposed with the geographical methodologies. Using both the literature and three case studies drawing from fieldwork conducted in the Peruvian Amazonian I argue that although previous analogue techniques carried a certain epistemological baggage, they were effectively neutral and did not impact of the ontology of the indigenous peoples. Geomatics technologies are not neutral and carry more than just baggage, so they are not so simply appropriated. Indigenous conceptions of landscape are not compatible with the current design of geomatics technologies but indigenous federations are increasingly employing them. The indigenous federation along with non-governmental organisations adopt the geomatics technologies because of their perceived authority in land rights and their applications in land management and saving cultural heritage. The State recognises this authority because the design and output of geomatics conforms to its legal system. However, indigenous peoples have a different agenda and conception of land rights. Their agenda is based on revitalising their heritage and land rights derived through self-determination. This research reveals such issues of power, politics and authenticity behind its application and the ontological and epistemological philosophy of its design.

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Shenkin, Evan. "Activism or Extractivism: Indigenous Land Struggles in Eastern Bolivia." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23716.

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This dissertation is a study of the tensions between the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) political party, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and indigenous social movement struggles for territorial autonomy. This study takes a multiscale approach by examining (1) the emergence of competing indigenous leadership organizations, (2) state repression of civil society groups, and (3) strategic indigenous-NGO alliances to preserve Native Community Lands (Tierra Comunitaria de Orígen, TCOs). At the community level, the study examines new organizations of state-aligned indigenous groups that represent extractive interests and threaten social movement cohesion. At the national level, this paper analyzes the controversial road project in the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS) and similar state efforts to erode legal protections for native lands in the interests of extractivism. Analyzing the academic and public debates over indigenous politics in the Amazon, this study explores the struggle between the state and lowland indigenous groups over popular hegemony and the ability to shape international perception over indigeneity, socialism, and resource exploitation. The findings support lowland indigenous social movement claims of state repression but situate this criticism within a path dependent world system dominated by global capital.

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Presley, Rachel E. "Decolonizing Dissent: Mapping Indigenous Resistance onto Settler Colonial Land." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou156346106453335.

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Gaudet, Janice Cindy. "An Indigenous Methodology for Coming to Know Milo Pimatisiwin as Land-Based Initiatives for Indigenous Youth." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35560.

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This research endeavour with Moose Cree First Nation provides insights into how emerging Indigenous methodologies are fundamentally grounded in an Indigenous epistemology that, for the purpose of this project, was found to be integral to youth and community wellbeing. More specifically, this project highlights an Indigenous perspective of health and wellbeing, milo pimatisiwin, that yields individual, collective and relational strengths with its focus on reconnecting youth to the land. This thesis offers methodological contributions in an effort to discuss research with Indigenous peoples beyond the participatory paradigm; it also develops on coming to know through the “visiting way” and elaborates further on Indigenous methods such as learning by doing concepts and conversational method. Discussing approaches of coloniality and settler-colonialism highlighted territoriality and land dispute issues, but most importantly here, these approaches established how the land is at the very core of the Omushkego people’s epistemology. Two land-based initiatives with Moose Cree First Nation were examined in this study. The initiatives provide insights into Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the land, to spirit, and to life stage teachings. The community experiences suggest how vital it is to center Indigenous knowledge in research and land-based initiatives for youth wellbeing as they contribute to developing, integrating and applying Indigenous methodologies, given this process is inter-related to fostering milo pimatisiwin. The Omushkegowuk people’s conceptions of health and wellbeing challenges colonial ideas and actions, and just as important, it allows for the production of knowledge within the context of Indigenous methods, experiences and wisdom.

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Fitzpatrick, Timothy. "Rearticulating Indigenous Identity: Evolving Notions of Citizenship and Ecuador's Contemporary Indigenous Movement." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/462.

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Thesis advisor: Deborah Levenson
A historical analysis of the political strategies employed by indigenous activsts throughout Ecuador's contemporary indigenous movement. Particular attention is paid to evolving notions of citizenhsip at the national level, land reform, institutional mobilization and identity politics
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
Discipline: College Honors Program

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Makmillen, Shurli. "Land, law and language : rhetorics of Indigenous rights and title." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26370.

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For good or ill, settler Indigenous relations in settler colonies around the world are being framed by longer and more complex texts. This renders the study of language more important than ever, especially as the frameworks and perspectives of Aboriginal people are increasingly given their due; it also raises the question about other strategies for resistance and redress, such as the role of the arts, politics, culture and media. This thesis explores these issues with respect to assumptions and debates about language and meaning, about language and culture, and about legal and literary language in a selection of genres in which natives and newcomers in British Columbia and Aotearoa/New Zealand mediate their claims about land, about government, and about what counts as legitimate knowledge. No longer is it correct to enforce paradigms of Western justice, nor to essentialize or exoticize Indigenous cultural production. But what is taking their place and how do particular rhetorics of language and of difference structure these legal and literary genres in this particular "contact zone"? That language is used in ways to serve situations is fundamental to rhetorical genre theory; that subsequent interpretations of this language use may serve subsequent often quite different situations is also of interest, and part of the action of genre. As a hermeneutical concept, genre can mediate between discourse and sentence levels of analysis in ways that keep audience effects in mind. But in the case of these genres both speakers and audiences can be polarized, dispersing intentions, uptakes, and effects. Theories of rhetoric and genre, which are my conceptual foundation, need amendment to account for this. Generating a more nuanced account of genre helps me develop a category of genres called contact genres: those genres in which rhetorical situations may be profoundly differently construed and yet they maintain their stability in order to address and dissolve colonialism’s culture.

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Sousa, Sebastião Rocha de. "Conflitos de identidade entre os jovens da etnia Tikuna na comunidade de Umariaçu I na terra indígena Eware I no município de Tabatinga/AM." Faculdades EST, 2013. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=543.

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O presente trabalho aborda a questão da identidade dos jovens Tikuna, da Comunidade de Umariaçu I na Terra Indígena Eware I no município de Tabatinga, AM, a partir dos desafios contemporâneos. Os Tikuna são um povo que habita a região amazônica que tem preservado parte de sua tradição cultural apesar do contato com os não-indígenas. Analisa-se o papel da educação na manutenção e reinterpretação da herança Tikuna bem como na sua reinvenção ritual. A juventude Tikuna tem diante de si o desafio de inserção no mundo moderno com a preservação das tradições recebidas de seus antepassados. Essa posição gera conflitos com os mais velhos e aprofunda as crises identitárias inerentes à adolescência. O rito da Festa da Moça Nova desempenha uma tentativa de conexão entre o passado e o futuro, uma vez que reinterpreta as obrigações rituais em um novo contexto. Nisso, consiste a riqueza da cultura Tikuna para a interpretação da interculturalidade em uma sociedade pluriétnica.
This paper deals with the issue of the identity of the Tikuna youth, of the Umariaçu I Community on the Eware I Indigenous Territory in the municipality of Tabatinga, AM, based on contemporary challenges. The Tikuna are a people who inhabit the Amazon region, who have preserved part of their cultural tradition in spite of the contact with the non-indigenous. The role of education in the maintenance and reinterpretation of the Tikuna heritage is analyzed as well as their ritual reinvention. The Tikuna youth have before them the attempt of insertion in the modern world with the preservation of the traditions received from their ancestors. This position generates conflicts with the older ones and deepens the identity crises inherent to adolescence. The Young Girl Festivity rite carries out an attempt of connecting the past and the future, since it reinterprets the ritual obligations in a new context. In this resides the wealth of the Tikuna culture for the interpretation of inter-culturality in a pluriethnic society.

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Almanza, Alcalde Horacio. "Land dispossession and juridical land disputes of indigenous peoples in northern Mexico : a structural domination approach." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48039/.

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This thesis looks at land disputes and the dispossession of Rarámuri communities in northern Mexico by examining the way dominant groups shape the structural conditions for land appropriation and its perpetuation over time. This is pursued by exploring the link between the Rarámuri communities’ decision-making power and their potential to resists land dispossession. The research contributes to a better understanding of the wide variety of dominant actors’ tactics behind juridical dispossession of indigenous landholders with ancestral ties to the land. Archive research and interviews regarding Rarámuri communities’ agrarian and juridical disputes over the 20th century provided empirical evidence to interpret dominant actors’ discourses and practices. These obscure indigenous communities’ land claims, while legitimating, normalising and allowing development-led land appropriation through the use of notions of progress, rule of law and political representation. While the lowest levels of Human Development in indigenous regions in northern Mexico have been found in the Tarahumara mountain range, development discourses and practices tend to neglect historical, relational and political perspectives of development-induced land displacement, thus, invisibilising structural inequalities and perpetuating land dispossession. The structural domination approach aims at the identification of the main structural conditions that indirectly constrain the Rarámuri’s efforts to protect their property or landholding rights from local and external elites engaged in development initiatives. Group dominance and subordination is thus highly influenced by groups’ constructed attributes and, therefore, by the position different groups occupy in the social structure. Archive research and interviews concerning Rarámuri communities’ agrarian and juridical disputes over the course of the 20th century revealed domination mechanisms for land dispossession. The thesis argues that these tactics undermine the Rarámuri’s decision-making power and, consequently, their potential to resist unwanted development interventions. I conclude that, in contrast to brokerage, self-determining practices have been shown to be more effective for securing and defending indigenous land.

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Xanthaki, Alexandra. "Indigenous rights in the United Nations system : self-determination, culture, land." Thesis, Keele University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394654.

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Leibovitch, Randazzo Michael. "Land-Based Food Initiatives in Two Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35714.

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The purpose of this thesis is to describe the harvesting and dietary practices of two rural and remote Indigenous communities. The ethnographic methods of participant observations and semi-structured interviews availed an abundance of rich and detailed data that allowed for a clear understanding of the barriers these two communities face when accessing food. This is an articled-based thesis containing three parts. Part one is composed of a literature review that describes the barriers that have contributed to food insecurity problems in Indigenous communities. It finishes with a chapter dedicated to defining the postcolonial theoretical perspective and describing how and why it was employed during this research process. The postcolonial perspective was chosen to best understand the historical forces that caused food insecurity in Indigenous communities and justify my position as a non-indigenous researcher in the field of Indigenous health. The second part of the thesis is made up of two articles. Article one will describe the current situation of food access challenges and responses in Canada, more specifically in two rural and remote First Nations communities. The article illustrates how both First Nations are experiencing challenges obtaining healthy food from the market and from the land. The article describes what is involved in acquiring food in both communities, and the responses each community is taking to increase food access. The article concludes by pointing out how these initiatives are building more than just food capacity and why they deserve greater external support. The second article is focused solely in the community of Wapekeka, and is entitled The Cost of Local Food Procurement in One Northern Rural and Remote Indigenous Community. The purpose of the article is to provide a specific example of building local food capacity as strategy to address food insecurity. It documents the costs associated with traditional food procurement and compares these costs against the price of food available in the store. The final component of the thesis is the overall conclusion, highlighting the belief that the findings presented in this thesis will promote and emphasize the importance of land-based food initiatives as a way to foster positive health outcomes for all Indigenous peoples.

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Chambers, Brian Carolan. "Negotiating Denendeh : indigenous solidarity, federal land claims policy, and fragmentation of the Dene/Metis comprehensive land claim." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251590.

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Toha, Kurnia. "The struggle over land rights : a study of indigenous property rights in Indonesia /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9627.

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Barume, Albert K. "Protection of indigenous' land rights in central, eastern and southern Africa : cases of Tanzanian and Kenyan land laws." Thesis, University of Essex, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397724.

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Goodwin, G. B. "The double movement in the Andes : land reform, land markets, and indigenous mobilisation in Highland Ecuador (1964-1994)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1452990/.

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This thesis explores land reform, land markets and indigenous mobilisation in Highland Ecuador (1964-1994) through the lens of Karl Polanyi’s concept of the “double movement”. The concept suggests modern capitalist societies comprise two forces: the movement towards the creation, expansion and liberalisation of markets (commodification) and the countermovement towards the regulation of markets, the strengthening of the state, and the promotion of non-market forms of organisation (decommodification). The thesis adopts a radical reading of the concept which sees the double movement as a fundamental contradiction in modern capitalist societies. The empirical investigation offers support for this reading and provides fresh insights into the use of the concept. The value of narrowing the lens of the double movement to examine struggles that emerge around specific economic issues and involve particular social groups is also demonstrated. The thesis also sheds new light on Ecuadorian land reform and the role indigenous peoples performed in the process. Greater clarity is provided on the impact of land reform in the highland region and the land redistributed to indigenous families and communities. One of the central points to emerge from the analysis is that the collective organisation and mobilisation of indigenous peoples were required to secure land through agrarian reform. The relationship between indigenous peoples and land markets is also explored. A new concept is developed which provides insights into the opportunities and threats land markets created for indigenous peoples. The thesis places the 1990 and 1994 indigenous levantamientos within a long-term struggle over land which contrasts with accounts that interpret the uprisings as reactions to structural adjustment and neoliberal reform. The contemporary relevance of the research is demonstrated through the analysis of recent developments in Ecuador, concentrating on indigenous and peasant attempts to bring the use and distribution of land under social control.

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Asante, Aimée. "Increasing ecological sustainability through land justice and environmental protection for indigenous people." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18876.

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Current paradigms governing environmental resource management are unsustainable and require an urgent change for ecological sustainability. To this end, Agenda 21 is the international action plan for an ecologically sustainable globe. It provides the scienta and ethics of the modern environmental age, from which praxis must be determined. A key factor, which has eluded us in determining the aforementioned, is the fact that indigenous people remain either alienated from their lands, or without effective control, and environmental protection, where possession has been retained. Whilst literature and international documents alike recognise the role of indigenous people as custodians of key areas of the earth's biodiversity, the combination of land justice and environmental protection for indigenous people has not been explored as a cornerstone for enhancing ecological sustainability. In this thesis, the contribution of Judeo-Christian ethics and Enlightenment philosophies to this current ecological crisis shall be considered in terms of value systems and ethics and praxis emanating from each. Furthermore the role of environmental protection and land justice for indigenous people of the New World, living as part of an identifiable community and adhering to traditional values, is explored in relation to enhanced ecological sustainability. A critical examination of the legal processes employed in granting land justice is embarked upon, demonstrating the justiciability of land justice cases through current, established laws, domestically and internationally. At international level, a teleological approach to Human Rights is demonstrated to be capable of adjudicating both land justice cases and cases of environmental protection. This approach would also enable, to a large extent, the displacement of self-determination as the cornerstone of indigenous peoples' rights, in favour of land justice. This is not simply a repetition of the reparations for indigenous peoples argument, inspired by the perceived injustice of a bygone era. This argument is new, relevant, imperative and responds to the voices of academics, governments and others striving towards solutions to the problem of ecological un-sustainability.

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Tomlinson, Kathryn. "Negotiating rights : indigenous rights, land and the power line conflict in Venezuela." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419811.

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McNeil, K. "Common law aboriginal title : The right of indigenous people to lands occupied by them at the time a territory is annexed to the Crown's dominions by settlement." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234395.

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McDaid, Jennifer D. ""Into a Strange Land": Women Captives among the Indians." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625624.

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Mullaney, Emma Gaalaas. "Land Security in the Carib Territory of Dominica." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248800617.

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Magnani, Natalia. "Making indigenous futures : land, memory, and 'silent knowledge' in a Skolt Sámi community." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283612.

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This dissertation considers experiences of embodied memory and indigenous connection to land by which people reconstitute social life in Skolt Sámi resettlement areas of Arctic Finland. After their Petsamo homeland was ceded to the Soviet Union following the Second World War, Skolt relocation to new areas of northern Finland radically transformed social, political, and subsistence lifeways, including through education in Finnish boarding schools. Continuing out-migration to Finnish cities has contributed to the suppression of identity and threats to community wellbeing, felt in ruptures of practice associated with material culture, language, and relationships with local ecologies. Though most studies in the region still focus on the reindeer herding and fishing commonly associated with Sámi populations, there is actually resurgence of Skolt craft (boats, tools, dress), as well as collection and processing of wild foods, which form the core of a vibrant cultural revival. Through participant observation and life history methods, I follow the making of things using local materials as a means by which people remake relationships with the land and with each other. The thesis focuses on the first 14 months of fieldwork in Čeʹvetjäuʹrr (F. Sevettijärvi) 2014-2015, out of a total of 26 months of multi-sited research in the Sámi regions. Scholarship on memory, practice, and displacement examines how memory becomes embodied, reworked, and reconciled across generations, and how material objects and the creation of home in new places create connections to original homelands. Meanwhile, studies among indigenous communities highlight how people use craft and art to establish connections to land despite, and through, displacement and movement. However, to understand the tangible mechanisms of these attachments and interventions, I inquire into the material practices by which people form relationships to resettlement environments. The thesis follows the concept of practical knowledge as transformed and mobilised through revival of local forms of production, to show how practices and memories are selectively rewoven to shape social futures. I argue that embodied processes of making, enmeshed in the materiality of resettlement environments, make Skolt community visible and felt in new ways by establishing connections between resettlement area and indigenous homeland. Grounding each chapter in stages of reconstruction of a Petsamo-style boat, made with roots, pine, and without metal nails, I weave points of analysis and diverse case studies to explore how processes of production, from collection of materials to building and ceremony, serve as loci of memory and practice by which people establish relationships with land to remake social worlds. In the first chapter, I explore spatial and temporal reconnections among Skolt return migrants and Finnish settlers to the Skolt regions of Finland. The second chapter deals with political and gendered dimensions of cultural revival work, showing how different ways of relating to the environment are negotiated through humour and production. The third chapter examines institutional avenues of reviving techniques of production. In the fourth chapter, I consider politics surrounding the role of non-Skolt actors in Skolt cultural revival. The final chapter examines how these politics are reconciled through ceremony and the making of collective memory, establishing Skolt presence in resettlement areas, as well as spatial and temporal continuity with Petsamo, through the public launching of the root boat. I conclude the thesis by bringing together the stages of boat production and related case studies to show how engagements with the environment through making create ways to reimagine relationships to people and place. I further suggest the broader contributions of this study for understanding indigenous movements, displacement, memory, and future-making.

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Tseng, Yi-Ling. "Alliance, Activism, and Identity Politics in the Indigenous Land Rights Movement in Taiwan." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1512045095941709.

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Nuebler, Noelle Katherine. "Empowerment of indigenous people in the regularization, surveillance, and protection of indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0024882.

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Navarro-Smith, Alejandra. "Structural racism and the indigenous struggle for land, justice and autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488309.

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Jones, Charlotte. ""THIS SACRED LAND IS OUR SHIELD": Deploying the Sacred in Indigenous Art and Activism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1206.

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My art historical and sociological thesis will take Cheyenne-Arapaho artist Edgar Heap of Birds’ Defend Sacred Mountains print series as the point of departure for examining the interventions of Native artists and grassroots activists in their decolonizing campaigns. Heap of Birds’ exhibition of sixty-four mono-prints, to be exhibited at Pitzer College Art Galleries in January 2018, calls attention to the ongoing injustices committed against four indigenous sacred sites across the United States: Bear Butte, South Dakota; Bear’s Lodge, Wyoming; San Francisco Peaks, Arizona; and Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Heap of Birds’ monoprints address and allude to indigenous struggles to undermine insensitive development, non-Native encroachment, and environmental despoliation on their sacred mountains. Consequently, one chapter will pay special focus to the case studies of contemporary legal and social battles occurring at these sites to counter land dispossession and reinforce tribal sovereignty. How tribal leaders and grassroots activists employ claims to these lands based on their sacred value and/or based on treaty rights will be explored on a case-to-case basis and guided by the theories of decolonization, survivance, and tribal sovereignty. Two other chapters will address Heap of Birds as a decolonial actor, one grounding his career in the theories of spatial politics and historical remembrance explored by other American Indian Movement era (AIM) indigenous artists such as George Longfish, Kay WalkingStick, Rebecca Belmore, and Demian DinéYazhi´; the second will consider the implications of Defend Sacred Mountains in relation to his wider oeuvre. In highlighting both grassroots and artistic responses to indigenous claims to these four sacred sites, this thesis hopes to explore the concrete and diverse interventions made in decolonial campaigns to reclaim tribal sovereignty and support cultural survivance.

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Christian, Dorothy. "Gathering knowledge : Indigenous methodologies of land/place-based visual storytelling/filmmaking and visual sovereignty." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61166.

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This dissertation addresses two questions that examine how localized cultural knowledge informs production practices in visual narratives produced for Fourth World Cinema and how Indigenous visual storytelling/filmmaking styles based in that knowledge determine the film elements, thus the cultural congruency of their selected aesthetics. Secwepemc-Syilx systems of knowledge in British Columbia are used as an exemplar for the development of a localized theory for creating visually sovereign narratives for Fourth World Cinema. This culturally specific ontology formulates a land/place-based identity, specific to Secwepemc-Syilx territories. Land, story and cultural protocols are central to this work and the seamless relational quality is illustrated by emphasizing how integral they are to Indigenous self-representation and identity. In the film discourse, the researcher brings together Manuel (Secwepemc) and Poslun’s Fourth World (1974) and Barclay’s (Maori) (1990, 2003a, 2003b) assertion of a Fourth Cinema to further develop the notion of a Fourth World Cinema. The ways that Indigenous film aesthetics shape the meaning of visual sovereignty and the concept of cultural congruency in constructing film elements are fundamental for Fourth World Cinema. In the globalization and film discourses the researcher interrogates how the concepts of political identity (indigeneity) and geographical location (deterritorialization) affect the treatment of Indigenous representation. An Indigenous Inquiry process is set in an Indigenous research paradigm that privileges Indigenous systems of knowledge. Indigenous and Euro-Western systems of knowledge(s) are juxtaposed to reveal the philosophical differences that affect land, story, and cultural protocols. Archibald’s (2008) seven Indigenous storywork principles of respect, responsibility, reciprocity, reverence, holism, interrelatedness, and synergy set the framework for the shared conversations of 13 Indigenous knowledge keepers. The findings of the knowledge gathered illustrate the commonalities in the cosmologies within the diverse expansive Indigenous worldviews. Another layer of investigation documents a peer-to-peer discussion between the researcher who is a visual storyteller and a diverse group of 17 Indigenous filmmakers who shared stories from their film production experiences. Their perspectives affirmed the role of culture in contemporary film production practices and led to the development of the concepts of story, land, cultural protocols, and Indigenous identity in Fourth World Cinema.
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Godin, Noah. "Protesters, Activists or Land Defenders? Narratives Around Indigenous Resistance in the Canadian Media : Discourse Analysis of Selected CBC Articles on Contemporary Indigenous Resistance." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43129.

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Indigenous autonomy, self-government and self-determination have historically been an area of conflict within the settler colonial state of Canada. This thesis aims to analyze critically the Canadian state’s alleged progressive nature in regard to nation-to-nation relations as well as the discourses that portray Canadian society as fostering Indigenous rights. Grounded in previous research and contextual background, this study uses the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA) to investigate how Canadian media produces and reproduces discourse around the issues connected with Indigenous resistance since the ‘Oka Crisis’ of 1990, based on the selected material published by The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The findings illustrate that while liberal-influenced narratives have improved, significant identification of decolonization within Canada’s media was not found and the structures of settler colonialism remain largely unchanged.

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Goerres, Heike. "Characterization of the bacterial diversity of a former tar works site and its indigenous degradation potential." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366522.

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Besteman, Catherine Lowe. "Land tenure, social power, and the legacy of slavery in southern Somalia." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185505.

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This dissertation reconstructs the settlement of the Middle Jubba Valley of Somalia by ex-slaves, their descendents, and other Somalis from 1850 to the present. It is an historical study of the construction of a social identity of the Jubba Valley agriculturalist population, and of the evolution of land tenure and land use patterns in the mid-valley. In examining the effects on valley farmers of new land tenure laws requiring registration of land, it shows how power dynamics are integral to the working of land tenure systems.

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Anthias, Penelope. "The elusive promise of territory : an ethnographic case study of indigenous land titling in the Bolivian Chaco." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.707939.

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Kram, Noa. "Clashes over recognition| The struggle of indigenous Bedouins for land ownership rights under Israeli law." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3560747.

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This dissertation examines indigenous Arab Bedouin legal struggles for land ownership in the Negev area in Israel. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the question of land ownership has been central to relations between Negev Bedouins and the state. The courts have rejected Bedouin claims for land ownership, declaring Negev lands as belonging to the state.

This study examined the historical Bedouin connection to land in the Negev, with emphasis on the evolution of customary practices of land ownership from the second half of the 19th century until the second half of the 20th century. The validity of Bedouin law in present Bedouin society is considered, as well as the meanings of land for Bedouin land claimants. In addition, clashes between Negev Bedouin law and Israeli law are considered in defining land ownership rights in the Israeli court.

Located in the discipline of anthropology, the theoretical frames for this study are indigenous people studies and postcolonial theories. The methodologies are participatory research and ethnography. Data sources included interviews with 15 Bedouin land claimants and 3 former Israeli officials, 9 visits to Bedouin villages, observations of 5 academic events regarding the land dispute, and primary documents from various state archives. In addition, a case study was conducted of one litigated land dispute between Bedouin land claimants and Israeli authorities.

In contrast to the traditional representations of the Bedouins as "rootless nomads," the results of this study indicate a strong connection of Bedouin participants to land in the Negev. The findings suggest that Bedouin society in the Negev includes practices of land ownership, and that their customary land ownership is valid in present Bedouin society. The legal conflict reflects clashes between Israeli legal practices and Bedouin indigenous oral practices, and has also been shaped by the national conflict between Israel as a Jewish state and the Bedouins as part of the Arab Palestinian minority.

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Van, Woudenberg Gerdine. "The political constitution of indigenous land struggles, a case study of the Aboriginal rights; trickster." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0002/MQ43331.pdf.

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Leake, Andrew Paul. "Subsistence and land-use amongst resettled indigenous people in the Paraguayan Chaco : a participatory approach." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268063.

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The lack of data on subsistence and land-use patterns often impedes the design of ecologically sustainable, culturally appropriate, socially acceptable and politically feasible approaches to the legalisation of land tenure among indigenous peoples. With specific reference to Amerindians of the Gran Chaco, this thesis shows the extent to which a participatory research methodology can empower indigenous peoples in generating, articulating and communicating data which are vital to the support of their land claims. Fieldwork was conducted with Angaite Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco between 1994 and 1996. Participatory research methods included a census of ten villages (pop. 1,005), drawings of subsistence activities, a survey of material possessions, a time-allocation study, self-kept records of food intake, anthropometric measurements of children, self-kept records on wildlife use (in ten villages), and Indian-made maps of land-use. Satellite imagery provided the basis for the geographic analysis of landuse patterns at local and regional scales. The Angaite own some land but are surrounded by privately owned cattle ranches. Their actual land and resource-use patterns extend over an area ten times greater than that to which they are legally entitled. Although horticulture and paid labour are now the mainstay of the Indian subsistence economy, hunting and fishing continue to provide over 90% of their meat consumption. Hunting patterns are shown to affect a large number of animals but only a small number of species. Land-use is focused on the communal exploitation of resources at key sites spread over broad areas of land. This concept is not catered for in the current Paraguayan legislation, which is based on the principle of giving families a plot of land to farm. On the basis of data generated by the Angaite, this study underlines the need for a radical rethinking of how Indian land-rights might be legalised in a manner which enhances the ecological sustainability of their respective lifestyles. Fundamental to that rethinking is the empowerment of indigenous peoples to express and communicate their own views on their own needs for land.

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Van, Woudenberg Gerdine (Gerdine Marinna) Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "The Political constitution of indigenous land struggles; a case study of the aboriginal 'rights' trickster." Ottawa, 1999.

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Ramirez-Espinosa, Naayeli Esperanza. "Indigenous struggles for land rights in Canada, Japan and Mexico : Delgamuukw, Nibutani Dam and Zirahuén." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46022.

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This dissertation is an interpretive case study of the claims and decisions of three legal cases that were brought to the courts by Indigenous peoples with respect to their constitutional rights. The first is the Delgamuukw case in Canada; the second is the Nibutani Dam case in Japan; and the third is the Zirahuén case in Mexico. Even though, in these three cases, the courts seem to be sympathetic to the pleadings of the Indigenous plaintiffs, they all dismissed, rejected, or left their claims unresolved on procedural grounds. The focus of the study are the procedural standards used by the courts for the review of the plaintiffs’ claims in the three cases and focuses on four themes: 1) the paucity of suitable causes of action to challenge the interventions of the state and third parties by Indigenous communities; 2) the difficulties of proof; 3) the inadequacy of remedies corresponding to the rights established in national and international laws; and 4) legal language and uncertainty regarding the content and reach of the rights of Indigenous peoples in the three jurisdictions. The study also looks at the rationality behind such standards and the courts’ concerns with fairness, coherence and autonomy. This study indicates that the Indigenous plaintiffs’ constitutional claims were extremely difficult to frame within the causes of action available for them. The actions were extremely difficult to use either because there were no causes of action to protect their rights at a proper moment, the causes of action disregarded crucial characteristics of the legal and material realities of the communities, or the causes of action lacked corresponding remedies. These difficulties suggest that there was a redundant tension between the notion of sovereignty that courts used in their decisions and the rights of Indigenous peoples. The analysis also suggests that the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights are conditional to an issue of constitutional power that needs to be resolved.

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Hughes, Charlotte Degener. "Indigenous-led Resistance to Environmental Destruction: Methods of Anishinaabe Land Defense against Enbridge's Line 3." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/91.

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Enbridge has proposed the Line 3 “Replacement” Project, a new pipeline project taking a new route strait through Anishinaabe treaty territory in what is known as northern Minnesota. In the middle of the regulation process, the future remains unclear of how the State of Minnesota will move forward with the permitting process, but Anishinaabe communities, a range of non-profit organizations, and local landowners remain firmly against the line. Rooted in varied frameworks of Native sovereignty, the land, and Indigenous feminism, Anishinaabe communities lead the resistance against a product of ongoing settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and environmental racism. This thesis contextualizes the multi-tactical repertoires of those defending the land in the existing work of Indigenous scholars who write on the necessity for land-based resistance towards the unsettling process of decolonization. Ultimately, the resistance against Line 3 is representative of a long-term battle for Native sovereignty and self-determination in defense of the land and future generations.

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Young, Alannah Earl. "Indigenous elders' pedagogy for land-based health education programs : Gee-zhee-kan'dug Cedar pedagogical pathways." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52622.

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This qualitative research articulates and develops an Anishnabe-Nehiyaw Cree perspective of a tribal pedagogy. The author weaves elements of critical ethnographies, Indigenous oral histories and critical tribal and feminist theories throughout the dissertation. She describes five pedagogical pathways that were developed through an Indigenous conversation method (Kovach, 2010) in 8 research circles with 18 Indigenous Elders in central, rural Manitoba. The research utilizes Indigenous storywork methodologies to gather and interpret the research on Indigenous local land-based pedagogies. The specific Gee-zhee-kan’-dug Cedar pedagogy is described by the Indigenous Elders who teach at a 24 year long land-based health education program. The author outlines five pedagogical learning pathways as key findings, which are: 1) culture: facilitating access to the revitalization of tribal Indigenous knowledges; 2) land: developing local co-partnerships and genealogies connected to territories; 3) orality: using story, ceremony, songs, prayers, language, dreams, performance, and genealogy as the primary modes of teaching; 4) community: aligning educators with local self-determining initiatives such as food sovereignty and access to healthy water and plant medicines; and 5) ethics: interweaving practices with sustainable, health-enhancing and decolonizing agendas. From the example of this Cedar pedagogy, the researcher proposes a framework for educators who want to develop their own local, land-based pedagogies. This framework includes five elements: 1) research local Indigenous nation’s culture and stories, and partner with appropriate resource people; 2) prepare materials and information required for students to learn in the class and on the land, and make space for and provide access to Indigenous knowledge holders; 3) follow local protocol principles, including proper expression of the value principles, negotiate local relationships to land, and modify protocol principles for each context; 4) apply the pedagogy by taking people out on the land, encouraging the use of all of the senses, and engaging respectfully with local peoples and places; and 5) reflect on the experience by sharing local stories of transformation and reconnection to lands/plants. The research concludes with a discussion on how Indigenous knowledge systems can inform land-based pedagogies, and how these pedagogies can have a pivotal role in strengthening peoples’ wholistic health.
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Gauvin, Lara Rosenoff. ""The land grows people" : indigenous knowledge and social repairing in rural post-conflict Northern Uganda." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58428.

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This dissertation examines how individuals and communities “move on” after two decades of war and mass internal displacement in rural Acoliland, Northern Uganda (~1986-2008). Based upon fieldwork from 2004 to 2012, it explores the multi-generational angst regarding youth’s disconnection from, or disinterest in, tekwaro (Acoli indigenous knowledge) in the conflict and post-conflict years. Attending to the ways that everyday inter-generational practices engendered by a return to the land activate a range of social relationships and engagements with tekwaro, I assert that these interactions re-gather different generations in the rebuilding of social, political, and moral community. I first re-narrate the history of one rural sub-clan, and explore how ngom kwaro (ancestral land) is their prime idiom of relatedness. Detailing experiences of displacement during the recent war, I acknowledge the tic Acoli (livelihood work) necessary for survival upon their return to the land as a vital framework for inter-generational engagement. I then consider adults’ and elders’ preoccupation with the decline of woro (respect) and cuna (‘courtship’ processes) within the IDP (internally displaced persons’) camps. Exploring how cuna affects relations and their organization, I examine contemporary cuna processes as important frameworks for inter-generational interaction. I finally consider how the responsibilities and relationships activated through kin-based communal governance organizations (sub-clans, lineages) are key to understanding both tekwaro and relatedness, and examine the creation of one sub-clan’s written constitution as another significant framework for inter-generational negotiation, participation, and engagement. I emphasize that these engagements with tekwaro work to elaborate and re-elaborate relatedness, and thus serve as important practices of social repairing, grounded by communal stewardship of the land. Rather than addressing specific transgressive violences experienced during the war years, the results of this research suggest that social repair–the striving for the restoration of sociality–implicitly concerns resistance of the seeping, inscribing, relational effects of those violences. Rather, a return to the land, and the system of land tenure itself, provokes inter-generational participation that serves to make and remake relatedness, orienting social relations away from the fragmenting, unprecedented, Acoli-on Acoli violence (Oloya 2013) experienced during the years of war and displacement.
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Wawryk, Alexandra Sophia. "The protection of indigenous peoples' lands from oil exploitation in emerging economies." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw346.pdf.

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Bibliography: leaves 651-699. "Through case studies of three emerging economies - Ecuador, Nigeria and Russia - this thesis analyses the factors present to a greater or lesser degree in emerging economies, such as severe foreign indebtedness and the absence of the rule of law, that undermine the effectiveness of the legal system in protecting indigenous peoples from oil exploitation. Having identified these factors, I propose that a dual approach to the protection of indigenous peoples' traditional lands and their environment be adopted, whereby international laws that set out the rights of indigenous peoples and place duties on states in this regard, are reinforced and translated into practice through the self-regulation of the international oil industry through a voluntary code of conduct for oil companies seeking to operate on indigenous peoples' traditional lands."

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Harris, Susan L. "Conservation easements on Mexican ejidos an alternative model for indigenous peoples /." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2008. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession86-10MES/Harris_SLMESThesis2008.pdf.

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Mainville, Robert. "Compensation in cases of infringement to aboriginal and treaty rights." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30317.

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This paper discusses the legal principles which are relevant in determining the appropriate level of compensation for infringements to aboriginal and treaty rights. This issue has been left open by the Supreme Court of Canada in the seminal case of Delgamuukw. The nature of aboriginal and treaty rights as well as the fiduciary relationship and duties of the Crown are briefly described. The basic constitutional context in which these rights evolve is also discussed, including the federal common law of aboriginal rights and the constitutional position of these rights in Canada. Having set the general context, the paper then reviews the legal principles governing the infringement of aboriginal and treaty rights, including the requirement for just compensation. Reviews of the legal principles applicable to compensation in cases of expropriation and of the experience in the United States in regards to compensation in cases of the taking of aboriginal lands are also carried out. Six basic legal principles relevant for determining appropriate compensation in cases of infringement to aboriginal and treaty rights are then suggested, justified and explained. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Chhay, Sokong Baker Iljas. "Customary land rights of indigenous people and their violation in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia : an assessment of the government's response /." Abstract, 2004. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2547/cd368/4238545.pdf.

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Ojulu, Ojot Miru. "Large-scale land acquisitions and minorities/indigenous peoples' rights under ethnic federalism in Ethiopia : a case study of Gambella Regional State." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6291.

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The contemporary phenomenon of the global rush for farmland has generated intense debate from different actors. While the proponents embrace it as a 'development opportunity', the critics dub it 'land grabbing'. Others use a neutral term: 'large-scale land acquisitions'. Whatever terminology is used, one fact remains indisputable - since 2007 vast swathes of farmlands in developing countries have been sold or leased out to large-scale commercial farmers. Ethiopia is one of the leading countries in Africa in this regard and, as a matter of state policy, it promotes these investments in peripheral regions that are predominantly inhabited by pastoralists and other indigenous communities. So far, the focus of most of the studies on this phenomenon has been on its economic, food security and environmental aspects. The questions of land rights and political implications have been to a great extent overlooked. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to this knowledge gap by drawing upon the experience of the Gambella regional state - the epicentre of large-scale land acquisition in Ethiopia. To this end, this thesis argues that large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia is indeed redefining indigenous communities' right to land, territories and natural resources in fundamental ways. By doing so, it also threatens the post-1991 social contract - i.e. ethnic federalism - between the envisaged new Ethiopian state and its diverse communities, particularly the peripheral minorities and indigenous ethnic groups.

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Fuentes, Carlos Iván. "Redefining Canadian Aboriginal title : a critique towards an Inter-American doctrine of indigenous right to land." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=101816.

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Is it possible to redefine Aboriginal title? This study intends to answer this question through the construction of an integral doctrine of aboriginal title based on a detailed analysis of its criticisms. The author uses international law to show a possible way to redefine this part of Canadian law. After a careful review of the most important aspects of aboriginal land in international law, the author chooses the law of the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights as its framework. Using the decisions of this Court he produces an internationalized redefinition of Aboriginal title.

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Bolaños, Cárdenas Omaira. "Constructing indigenous ethnicities and claiming land rights in the lower Tapajós and Arapiuns region, Brazilian Amazon." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0022809.

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Luyckx, Karen. "Land, livelihoods and politics in rural lowland Bolivia : a comparative case study of two indigenous communities." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414538.

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