When referring to the original inhabitants of a land generally,Indigenousis perhaps the most widely used and accepted term. But while manyIndigenoustribes and nations certainly accept and use general terms such asNative AmericansorIndigenous Peoples, many individuals prefer the name of theirtribeor nat...
“Back in the 1800s during the war between Mexico and the Apache, the Mexican Government was paying money for the scalps of Apache men, women, and children. In the United States, they put them on reservations; here, they killed us. Now for us, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is really importan...
Besides their isolation from the mainland of Taiwan, several unique cultural characteristics set the Tao apart from Taiwan’s other16 officially recognized Indigenous peoples. This makes Orchid Island one of thebest places to experience Indigenous culture in Taiwan. Most famous among these traits are ...
How do Indigenous peoples live in the rainforest? How do Indigenous tribes protect the rainforest? How does climate change affect Indigenous peoples? How do the First Nations protect the environment? How did the Blackfoot tribe adapt to their environment?
Expecting them to have a voice as the monolithic category of indigenous peoples denies them their constitutive heterogeneity; referring to them as 'them' entails constructing the Other of this critique as a pre-discursive object. But what really is the object of my critique—the indigenous, ...
Many longstanding place names came from Indigenous peoples, explorers, and colonizers—and those labels tend to stick over time. The name “Canada” has been in use since the mid-1500s. Ottawa, on the other hand, wasoriginally knownas “Bytown” ...
For First Nations peoples, Indigenous concepts of science make no sense and have no meaning if they are separated from the people and their culture.Dr Lee explains that star knowledge is about so much more than science itself: 对于原住民来说,如果他们与原住民及其文化分离,土著的科学概念就没有...
Ever since Cristobal Colon's first visit to the Americas the quest for gold has been a major driver of colonial and post-colonial States’ take-over of indigenous peoples’ lands (Columbus, 1969). It was the lure of gold that led to the decimation of the Arawaks of Hispaniola (Rouse, 19...
As noted in the introduction, attention to issues and campaigns about social justice, environmental racism, deforestation and mega infrastructure projects, and Indigenous Peoples’ rights amongst others thus brought ideas of Environmental Justice firmly into the debates on climate change (Agyeman et al....
There is confirmed use among several contemporary tribes of indigenous peoples in Central America, including the Mazatec, Mixtec, Nauhua and Zapatec. Magic mushrooms began to be eaten by Westerners in the late 1950s. A mycologist (one who studies mushrooms) named R. Gordon Wasson was ...