Indigenous Peoples

Review of European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Moral Backwardness of International Society by Paul Keal

by Sidney Shapiro

The role of indigenous peoples in international society is complex to discern and define.  In European Conquest... more The role of indigenous peoples in international society is complex to discern and define.  In European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Moral Backwardness of International Society, Paul Keal examines the role in which European conquest and history have impacted indigenous peoples.  This essay will examine aspects from the book, namely the access to the political franchise by indigenous peoples, the state of international society and the various rights and obligations which society dictates, a brief overview of colonialism on both an external and internal basis, and finally on elements of international law which focus on the concept of rights, how to obtain them, and what the requirements are.  European Conquest gives new meaning and texture to the understanding of indigenous rights by bringing together a multitude of secondary source material and presents a clear snapshot of the surge by indigenous people to gain rights and definition.

Politics and culture among the Russian Sami Leadership representation and legitimacy

by Indra Overland

The Evolution of Federal Indigenous Policy in the Post-Soviet North

by Indra Overland

3 Indigenous issues

by Indra Overland

Poverty and International Aid among Russia's Indigenous Peoples

by Indra Overland

Linguistic Diversity in the Knowledge Commons

by Giridhar Rao

This article appears in the newsletter "Common Voices" (no. 7). The complete issue is at http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/common-voices-7.pdf

Indigenous languages encode a considerable amount of traditional environmental knowledge -- knowledge about... more Indigenous languages encode a considerable amount of traditional environmental knowledge -- knowledge about biodiversity management. Thus, from even a purely instrumental point of view (setting aside ethical and rights-based considerations), indigenous languages need to flourish. How serious is the situation of indigenous languages? What are some of the major reasons why languages become endangered? And what can be done about it? These are some of the questions this essay will address, largely from the Indian experience.

Rethinking the Archaeology of Rebels, Backsliders, and Idolaters. In Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas, edited by M. Liebmann and M. S. Murphy. SAR Press, Santa Fe.

by Matthew Liebmann

Co-authored with Melissa S. Murphy. Introduction to the volume "Enduring Conquests"

Race and Modernity_ The Prospects of Indigenous Peoples in Sustainable Development

by Cicilie Krantz

Domestic violence report - Signe Leth 2012

by Signe Leth

The Myth of the Inkarri: Colonial Foundations in International Law and Indigenous Claims to Self-Determination

by Elena Cirkovic

Self-Determination and Indigenous Peoples in International Law

by Elena Cirkovic

Networks of Advantage: Urban Indigenous Entrepreneurship and the Importance of Social Capital

by Rochelle R. Côté

Côté, Rochelle R. 2012. Edited by D. Newhouse, K. Fitzmaurice, T. McGuire-Adams & D. Jette in Well-Being in the Urban Aboriginal Community. Toronto, Canada: Thompson Educational Publishing.

As a way of gaining independence, encouraging prosperity and fostering opportunity, economic development has... more As a way of gaining independence, encouraging prosperity and fostering opportunity, economic development has increasingly become a focus of Indigenous communities across Canada. While job creation is important, Indigenous entrepreneurship is another important driver of economic prosperity. Recent data suggests that since 1996, Indigenous entrepreneurship continues to grow at a rate five to nine times the pace of the general population in Canada. Yet even with this rapid growth and increasing popularity, many business fail. Past work has focused on access to funding and education as main reasons why entrepreneurs succeed or fail. Recent work has determined that a third mechanism, social capital, provides advantages over and above money and education – the people you know matter. Drawing on interviews with eighty entrepreneurs living and/or doing business in Toronto, this paper provides a rich narrative of Indigenous entrepreneurship by incorporating social capital alongside social status predictors and participation in voluntary associations as predictors of entrepreneurial performance.

Le pastoralisme en Sibérie occidentale: les défis qu'affrontent les éleveurs de Rennes

by Stephan Dudeck

DUDECK (Stephan).- Le pastoralisme en Sibérie occidentale: les défis qu'affrontent
les éleveurs de Rennes.- Paris : Harmattan, 2010.- In : Pasteurs nomades et transhumants
autochtones / Groupe international de travail pour les peuples autochtones (GITPA) p. 125-
149.- Bibliogr. p. 148-149.-
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Visual identity and Indigenous tourism: power, authenticity, hybridity and the Osoyoos Indian Band's Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre

by Katie Bresner

Masters Thesis

The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction... more The tourism industry is particularly reliant on the use of imagery to create a brand for a destination or attraction in order to effectively market its product. In the case of Indigenous tourism, a paradox often exists between maintaining a level of recognition and familiarity that mirror the expectations of the public imagination, and conveying a representation that is locally meaningful and emblematic. Investigation into the visual representation and communication of identity through tourism is a means to illustrate three overlapping issues that are prevalent throughout the literature on Indigenous tourism. These are: control, authenticity, and hybridity. This research project addresses these issues through an extensive review of anthropological and tourism-related literature and its application to the specific case study of one Indigenous tourism business, the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre (NDCC), owned and operated by the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) in Osoyoos, British Columbia (BC), Canada. Semiotic and visual analyses are used to elucidate the messages about OIB identity communicated through the Centre’s visuals, in order to bring the example of the OIB and NDCC into conversation with the larger issues found within Indigenous tourism.

New Interethnic Relations and Native Perceptions of Human-to-Human Relations in Brazilian Amazonia

by pirjo kristiina virtanen

2009. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 14(2): 332-354.

This article attempts to provide fresh insight into the new kinds of intermediaries found in Amazonian native... more This article attempts to provide fresh insight into the new kinds of intermediaries found in Amazonian native communities, showing how interethnic relations have changed
today’s native communities. The text presents a case study of the Manchineri people living in Brazilian Amazonia, focusing in particular on their spokespeople in rural and urban areas. These intermediaries work to produce equality and relatedness within the new social spaces where negotiations are required. Producing new human perspectives with non-natives is necessary in order to interact in the contemporary Amazonian
interethnic sociocosmologies. However, in the Manchineri community, new social roles have caused widening generational, urban–rural and gender gaps. The social logic
of Amazonian native peoples limits the ways in which specific social roles with special interethnic skills are temporarily adopted, and produces new ways to overcome deepening
social, political, and economic distances.

Review: Anikin A. E.: Etimologicheskij slovar' russkix zaimstvovanij v jazykax Sibiri. Probnye stat'i. Chast' 1.

by Marek Stachowski

Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia

by Simon Springer

Springer, S. Forthcoming. Illegal evictions? Overwriting possession and orality with law’s violence in Cambodia. Journal of Agrarian Change.

The unfolding of a juridico-cadastral system in present-day Cambodia is at odds with local understandings of... more The unfolding of a juridico-cadastral system in present-day Cambodia is at odds with local understandings of landholding, which are entrenched in notions of community consensus and existing occupation. The discrepancy between such orally recognized antecedents and the written word of law have been at the heart of the recent wave of dispossessions that have swept across the country. Contra the standard critique that corruption has set the tone, this paper argues that evictions in Cambodia are often literally underwritten by the articles of law. Whereas ‘possession’ is a well-understood and accepted concept in Cambodia, a cultural basis rooted in what James C. Scott refers to as ‘orality’, coupled with a long history of subsistence agriculture, semi-nomadic lifestyles, barter economies, and–until recently–widespread land availability have all ensured that notions of ‘property’ are vague among the country’s majority rural poor. In drawing a firm distinction between possessions and property, where the former is premised upon actual use and the latter is embedded in exploitation, this article examines how proprietorship is inextricably bound to the violence of law.

Decolonizing the Master Narrative: Treaties and Other American Myths

by Donna L Akers, Ph.D.

Visualisation D4

by Andrea Berardi

This paper is a works in progress, exploring the visualisation revolution currently being enabled by emerging information and communication technologies. Paradoxically, I'm proposing that this visual revolution is enabling pre-literate communities to better engage with wider society on their own terms. Any ideas/comments welcome!

Itinéraire d'un enfant volé: de l'assimilation au Black Power

by Bastien Bosa

Published in "Luttes autochtones, trajectoires post-coloniales"