“The elephants — each based on a real, wild elephant from the Nilgiri Hills known by name and personality living alongside people in their coffee and tea plantations — were made by members of the Coexistence Collective, a group of200 Indigenous artisans from the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. “...
his eyes reflect a confident determination. He grew up on the Tsartlip reserve near Brentwood Bay, embedded in Saanich’s Indigenous culture. Archie speaks the SENĆOŦEN language, although he quickly adds, “not very well.”
My grandparents’ house was located at the edge of the reserve. We had only two neighbours which included three other children, all of them cousins. Summer or winter, we spent most of our time playing outside, running along the lakeshore through water or snow, or over the ice. We wore ...
a neighborhood in Taitung, and is near the airport and the boardwalk. Taitung Art Museum and the National Museum of Prehistory are cultural highlights, and some of the area's activities can be experienced at Fushan Fish Reserve and Jhiben Hot Spring. Ren Ai Fudegong and Zhonghegong are als...
Most Indigenous individuals were legally prohibited from leaving their home reservation (in the United States) or reserve (in Canada) without specific permission; having thus confined Native peoples, the two countries set about assimilating them into the dominant culture. Perhaps the most insidious ...
During the 19th century, and often only after heated resistance, the governments of theUnited StatesandCanadadisenfranchisedmost Northern American peoples of their land andsovereignty. Most Indigenous individuals were legally prohibited from leaving their homereservation(in the United States) or reserve (...
The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve: a postcolonial feminist political ecological reading of violence and territorial struggles in Honduras S. Mollett, K. Thembela (Eds.), Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice: Rethinking People and Parks, Routledge, New York (2018) Google Scholar Moreto...
Seeing that no one individually owned the disputed swathes, the government sold a part of the Arnhem Land Reserve to a baux- ite mining company. The Yolngu asserted that they had enjoyed a 'communal native right' over the area since time immemorial. Justice Blackburn ruled against them, ...
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today threatening societies and the future of the planet. The impacts of climate change are more severe in poor and marginalised populations like Indigenous communities where people rely heavily on their Indigenous Knowledge (IK) to ad...
One interviewee described growing up on a reserve and hardly seeing any men: Because all the men were out working. They were at seasonal jobs and farms, road construction… Then everybody would come home in Christmas. We had always fish, lots of wild meat, berries, garden… We shared ...