The California gold rush era is most often remembered for the thousands of immigrants who traversed oceans and continents for a chance at quick wealth. Often lost in these narratives are the rich and diverse histories of Indigenous people who actively participated in, and were deeply affected by,...
The Legacy of David S. Cohen’s Ramapo Mountain People and the Rise of Indigenous Hatekeepers April 10, 2023"Alleged Pretendian List", Afro-Dutch, Afro-Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous historic erasure, American Indians, Bergen County, Black Atlantic, Black-Native, Blacks in Rockland County, Cheroke...
In 1854, William Westgarth was sent by the Government of Victoria to investigate the causes of the Eureka Revolt, an armed rebellion by gold prospectors resisting governmental regulation and taxation. As he approached the goldfields along the Loddon Valley, Westgarth came across a community that he...
At least one of the indigenous languages in Mexico is very unusual – Whistling your way from A to B: the whistled language of the Chinantec people in Oaxaca –and some have no words for “left” or “right”, while others are now spoken by only a very small number of people. The ex...
2011. The Construction of Indigenous People in Cambodia. In Alterities in Asia: Reflection on Identity and Regionalism, ed. Leong Yew, 155–176. New York: Routledge. Google Scholar Baird, Ian G. 2015. Translocal Assemblages and the Circulation of the Concept of ‘Indigenous Peoples’ in ...
oyster fisheries cannot be effectively restored and managed without considering the past, present, and future roles of Indigenous people. Ecosystem health, however, is only one consideration—the inclusion of Indigenous people’s voices in their ancestral ecosystems also restores some of the rights that...
Most of the water resources near a mine have the highest level of pollution susceptibility to the accumulation of mercury materials mixed in the gold mine filtering process [2]. Ref. [3] argues that saving people’s lives due to mining land is a public concern in disaster prevention, ...
chiefly in rural areas. The pressure of an increasing population combined with poverty has driven many aboriginal people into the cities. Lacking education or skills valued by white society, they often have beenrelegatedlargely to underemployment and unemployment. However, this relationship of dependence...
The soil is red, and amongst the trees I recognize something I’m more familiar with in India: tamarind trees, one of the many symbols of the history of trade and exchange—a centuries-old history, in fact—between the Yolŋu people and Macassan traders of Indonesia. The Yolŋu are...
1: Ancestral Taíno people paint over 6,000 pictographs in the Pomier Caves in the Dominican Republic 1–600: Moche culture flourishes in northern coastal Peru, characterized by monumental adobe mounds, murals, metalwork, and ceramics 1–700: Nasca culture thrives in southern coastal Peru, chara...