In September, Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that marco temporal, a legal theory that would have limited Indigenous claims to land and opened those territories to extractive industries like mining and ...
Scholars have diversified notions of sovereignty with indigenous frameworks ranging from native sovereignty to cultural sovereignty. Within this range, there exists only a small body of research ...
At the end of May, Brazilian lawmakers approved legislation that would invalidate Indigenous land claims and open protected Indigenous lands to mining, road-building, agriculture, and other extractive ...
Waitangi as mystery of state: consequences of the ascription of federative capacity to the Māori / J.G.A. Pocock -- The struggles of indigenous peoples for and of freedom / James Tully -- Beyond ...
Michalyn Steele, a citizen of the Seneca Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and a leading scholar in Federal Indian Law, studies jurisprudence through the lens of Social Dominance Theory, a ...
According to a recent study in Australia and American, the suspected genetic susceptibility of indigenous people to diabetes may be a fallacy. The study was conducted by an expert from the Darwin ...
I want to compliment The Plain Dealer and Peter Smith of the Associated Press for the July 23 article, “Churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools,” as part of the paper’s “Race in ...
Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In September, Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that marco temporal, a legal theory that ...