Whale of a Time

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Indigenous Lands


Indigenous Lands

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Indigenous lands describes the geographical area that is home to a particular indigenous community and that may have sacred, cultural, agricultural or economic value for that community. The rights of indigenous people are those human and legal rights that have been denied to indigenous people because of their heritage, particularly in relation to their land and homes.
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land rights, protection, ownership, aboriginal, livelihoods, subsistence, economic development, sense of place, environmental protection, land seizure, land sovereignty, natural resources management, cultural easements, biodiversity knowledge, self-determination, tribe, tribal, local, community, culture, aborigines, native peoples, first peoples, autochthonous, education, minority, racism, cultural diversity, sovereignty, human rights, land claims, self-government, autonomy, political rights, identity rights, racial healing, sacred sites, ethnobiology

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Colonialism on Trial:
Book detailing the Gitksan- We'Suwet'En land rights and sovereignty case

 

The Anchorage Declaration

A joint statement by the indigenous community on climate change and indigenous rights.

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