...David Casani November 17, 2014 Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the US and Contemporary Issues The United States is the melting pot of many different ethnicities and indigenous tribes attempting to harmoniously coexist. One of the major ethnic groups is the Indigenous Peoples of America. Who are they? Jose R. Martinez Cobo was a diplomat and politician who elaborated a definition for Indigenous Peoples, although the UN officially never adopted his definition, which is the commonly accepted understanding of the concept of Indigenous Peoples, stating: “Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them. They form at present non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as peoples, in accordance with their own cultural patterns, social institutions and legal system” (NCIV). Currently, there are 4.1 million indigenous peoples living in the US, which contributes to 1.5 of the US population (Nelson 1-19). The majority of these individuals are members of one of the five greatest tribes that forms the Confederacy of the Five Nations: Navajo, Hopi, Apache, Iroquois, and Lakota. The main...
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...The Indigenous Heritage Of The Caribbean And Its Contribution To A Caribbean Identity Text from the Untold Origins Exhibition held at the Cuming Museum, October 2004 to February 2005. The Cuming Museum 155-157 Walworth Road London SE17 1RS 020 7525 2163 cuming.museum@southwark.gov.uk www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSouthwark/Museums ‘Mabrika Mabrika- welcomeIt has been very important to be able to look at the objects in the Cuming Museum. It makes me realise how much we can regain from what we have lost of our culture by studying these objects.’ The Honourable Charles Williams, Carib Chief of the Carib Territory, Commonwealth of Dominica, on a visit to the Cuming Museum, October 6 2004. He is holding a ceremonial baton or club, used by chiefs as a badge of office on ceremonial occasions. From the Schomburgk collection. Introduction The Caribbean has always seen people on the move - from the settlement of people from the South American mainland thousands of years ago, the forced settlement of enslaved people from Africa, to the 'Island hopping' and immigration abroad in search of work in the 20th century. Within the Untold Origins exhibition we explored what happens when people and cultures move and come into contact with each other. What do people preserve from their original culture to maintain their sense of identity? How does contact with a new culture change how they view themselves? The histories and stories of the people who populated the Caribbean prior to...
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...Final Research Paper: Tainos, The indigenous people Before the discovery of the new world, it has been known of the various indigenous people that once inhabited our lands. The more popular natives such as the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs have been widely sought out in today’s age, unlike other lesser-known tribes such as the Tainos. Today many tribes have vastly decreased in number and size, but there are those who still practice and familiarize themselves with their heritage. I myself can relate to this small percentage of people, due to the fact I am descendent of the Tainos from Cuba. Hence, I decided to make my research paper based on the history of my heritage: The Tainos. The word Taino derived from the meaning “men of the good.” Based on historical facts, the Tainos were indeed good people. These indigenous people established a culture where the human temperament was kind. Among the Taino at the time of contact, generosity and kindness were governing values in society as well as directed towards an ecological interaction with the natural surroundings. It suggested a lifestyle that tried to feed its entire people, and a spirituality that was valued, through ceremonies. The Taino lived humbly in an abundant place and so their environment was abundant. The Tainos & Ciboneys were related to the cultural Arawak group, who was one of the main indigenous people of South America and the Caribbean. They spoke Taino, which was considered Arawak language...
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... Indigenous people and their rights Throughout hundreds of year’s indigenous peoples have suffered most of their time in their native countries. They’ve been under political control that exploited their economy, under dictatorships and abuse of their culture and resources in their existence. These causes mostly occur in brazil. Treating indigenous people and disrespecting the way they live is crucial for them. Just because they have no type of power like certain people have it doesn’t mean they should be treated the way they are treated. On this essay I will argue that if indigenous people adjust a little bit better on in their lives and culture they can live a better life. They’re many issues that affect many characters like Marina Singh and the indigenous tribes in the amazon from the book State of Wonder, a book written by Ann Pattchet. Marina is sent to the amazon in look for her former Co-worker Dr. Eckman who is reported to be dead from a letter Dr. Swenson sent to Eckman’s wife. At the amazon Dr. Swenson, a former researcher for Vogel pharmaceuticals scientist is in search of a new drug that results to be a cure for malaria that is tested on indigenous women. These indigenous people from the amazon think they would be left out of a good health treatment. Other indigenous people work for her without having to have a purpose to do so. In addition, Swenson is concerned...
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...as it sets out how the existing rights standards apply to how the rights of indigenous people are protected and recognized in different nations. This declaration helps to reduce the level of discrimination which countries with different cultures treat the indigenous and also improve their situation globally. The declaration and other instrument are significant since the indigenous people are consulted prior to any decision on their property or even their territories so that they can be aware of what’s going on. If they are not consulted then they have the right to be compensated for violation of those rights. Conflicts can now be resolved fairly and mutually without being biased on one group of people by following acceptable procedures to resolve such conflicts between the states and the indigenous people. This includes procedures such as arbitration, mediation and negations. If the problem persists regional, national, and international courts are involved so that the best mechanisms can be put up for disapproving and human rights violation are examined. The instruments are significant as they now affirm equity among different individuals in the states. The aboriginal can be treated equally and be respected like any other citizen. These people can now consider themselves same as the others. All services to be offered to the public are distributed to all people in the country. The indigenous people can now arrange themselves economically, politically and socially so as to bring...
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...This assessment focuses on the issue of Hotel Laeta’s corporate social responsibility and its duty of care towards the Indigenous Australian people. Background Aboriginals Australians are technically the first people who lived in Australia. Australian Aboriginals were basically the hunters who used to eat the animals they caught and were also considered as gatherers of plants which could be eaten. Some of these groups then settled on the islands and are now called as Torres Strait Islander People. 1. Foundational Aspects of Indigenous Australian Cultures (the dreaming and economic organisation) The term dreaming is a spiritual or a regional perception which not only goes back to the creation of the events but it also grasps the present...
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...Sa ating bansang Pilipinas ay may mahigit na 40 tayong iba’t ibang katutubong grupo at sa bawat grupo ay may kanya-kanyang kultura at lengwahe. Bawat pangkat din ay nakatira sa isang “specific” na rehiyon sa isang isla. Ang ating mga pangkat-etniko ay makikita sa iba’t ibang parte ng tatlo nating kapuluan: Luzon, Visayas at Mindanao. Ang ating mga katutubo, o mas kilala bilang mga “Lumads” ay silang mga taong namili na mamuhay ayon sa tradisyon na pamamaraan hindi katulad natin na patuloy na nag-eebolb dahil sa mga mananakop na napapadpad sa ating teritoryo. SINO NGA BA ANG MGA ITINUTURING NATING MGA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE? Sa tagalog, sila ang mga “Pangkat-etniko o mga Katutubo.” Sila ang mga itinuturing nating mga sinaunang tao dito sa Pilipinas. Noong Martes, Setyembre 15, ay ginanap ang Noise Barrage para sa paghingi ng hustisya sa pagpatay sa mga Lumads. Sa aking mga nasagap na balita, ang nangungunang dahilan daw sa pagpatay sa kanila ay hindi dahil sa sila ay pinagbibintangang mga NPA o New People’s Army, ang katotohanan nito ay gusto nilang kunin ang lupa ng mga Lumads dahil sa mga naitatago nitong mga ginto at mga mineral na hindi mapagkakaila na mapakikinabangan talaga. Naisip ko lang— wala bang karapatan ang mga Lumads na angkinin ang lupa na sa kanila naman talaga? Mas nauna pa sila sa ating makatungtong dito sa Pilipinas, pero parang sila pa ang naaagrabyado. Sabi nila, hindi raw ito ang unang beses na nangyari, pero bakit parang hindi nakararating sa gobyerno ang...
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...An oral presentation about the indigenous people the Suri. Today I would like to talk about a people whose culture is under constant treat due to the world that surrounds them. This people have suffered great changes to their society because of influence from the outside world. Many considers them to be savage and should learn to be more civilized, and that the best way to teach them our way of living is to introduce western ideals through modernization and development, bringing means to the restructuring of their society. Let’s have a look at these savage people. The Suri lives in the south-west of Ethiopia, not far from the border to Sudan. It’s an area of low hills and savannah grassland, roughly the size of the country of Dorset – and it’s home to about 30,000 Suri. The Suri are semi-nomadic cattle-herders, meaning that they live in settled villages, but whenever the need arises they move with their cattle to find better grazing. Although there is plenty of water available during the rain-season, these seasons are very unpredictable. In recent years there have been long periods of drought, resulting in severe famine. Similar other pastoral nomads all over the world, cattle play a massively important role in this society. Their culture is quite different and nothing like anything we would be custom to up in the north. For example; whilst we tend to measure wealth in the number of cars and cabins a family owns, the Suri measure it by how many cattle a person own. There’s...
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...Introduction: Ever heard of Tulum, Los Cabos, Copper Canyon or Chichen Itza? They are one of Mexico’s most visited tourist attractions! () Mexico borders the United States to the north and Guatemala and Belize to the south. () There are around 110 million people in Mexico that are 89% Roman Catholic, 6% protestant and 5% other. () Most people in Mexico speak Spanish and their second language is English. () Majority of people in Mexico is mestizo’s people and indigenous people. () Did you know Mexico is three times the size of Texas?() Also, Mexico City is the capital city() and their official currency in Mexico is called Peso!() The first people to arrive to Mexico were the Native Indians about 20,000 years ago, but in 1519 to 1521; the Spanish dominated Mexico.() A Teenager’s Lifestyle: A teenager’s lifestyle in Mexico...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The Philippine archipelago is made up of 7, 107 islands with total area of 300, 00 square kilometer. It has a current population of nearly 88 million people, 75% of which belong to 8 major ethnic groups and the remaining 25% are divided among different minor ethnic groups and indigenous tribes. The country has more than 110 ethnic tribes and cultural communities whose cultures and traditions are in varying states of extinction. These vanishing ancestral traditions and customary laws used to define social relationships and values and promoted efficiency of economic activities. Section 30 of the IPRA stipulates that “the state shall provide equal access to various cultural opportunities to the IP’s through the educational system, private or public cultural entities, scholarships, grants and other incentives without prejudice to their right to establish and control their educational systems and institutions by providing education in their own language, in a manner appropriate to their cultural methods of teaching and learning. Indigenous children/youth shall have the right to all levels and forms of education of the State”. The Basic Education Assistance for Mindanao (BEAM) is a DepEd project supported by the Government of the Philippines and the Government of Australia through the Australian Agency for International Development (AUSAID). It is aiming to improve the access to and the quality of basic education in...
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...Imperialism There is one particular figure whose name looms large, and whose spectre lingers, in indigenous discussions of encounters with the West: Christopher Columbus. It is not simply that Columbus is identified as the one who started it all, but rather that he has come to represent a huge legacy of suffering and destruction. Columbus ‘names’ that legacy more than any other individual.2 He sets its modern time frame (500 years) and defines the outer limits of that legacy, that is, total destruction.3 But there are other significant figures who symbolize and frame indigenous experiences in other places. In the imperial literature these are the ‘heroes’, the discoverers and adventurers, the ‘fathers’ of colonialism. In the indigenous literature these figures are not so admired; their deeds are definitely not the deeds of wonderful discoverers and conquering heroes. In the South Pacific, for example it is the British explorer James Cook, whose expeditions had a very clear scientific purpose and whose first encounters with indigenous peoples were fastidiously recorded. Hawai’ian academic Haunani Kay Trask’s list of what Cook brought to the Pacific includes: ‘capitalism, Western political ideas (such as predatory individualism) and Christianity. Most destructive of all he brought diseases that ravaged my people until we were but a remnant of what we had been on contact with his pestilent crew.’4 The French are remembered by Tasmanian Aborigine Greg Lehman, ‘not [for] the intellectual...
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...Country: Austria Topic: The Right of Indigenous People ------------------------------------------------- Committee: United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) The past decades have seen an increase in the awareness of human rights; one of the proofs of this is the formation of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. Among the problems that this council currently faces are the rights of indigenous people. Indigenous peoples are a community/group of people which was born in and inhabits a particular territory, with cultural or historical distinctiveness from other populations before being conquered by any colonial societies. They are also responsible for playing a role in protecting and conserving the territory they inhabit. In the past these people were vulnerable to exploitation and oppression from groups of colonists that form a nation state and politically dominant ethnic groups. It has been estimated that the total current population of indigenous peoples are 220 million to 350 million. With such a large population, these people deserve the rights to protect them from threats risen from western development such as the killing of animal species for economic interests, deforestation, mining, oil exploration, carbon emitting industries, persistent organic pollutants and the insatiable consumption patterns of western industries. Indigenous rights are rights that exist in recognition of the specific conditions of the indigenous peoples, which includes not only the most...
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...According to Aikman (1999), the impact of large industries and big business have been responsible for the decimation of the traditional livelihoods of indigenous peoples. For example, hunting, food gathering, and subsistence agriculture are a crucial aspect to indigenous lifeways and women play a significant role in sustaining these cultural practices. Arakmbut women are the agriculturalists, who plant and tend swidden gardens and cook the meat or fish that the men bring from the forest and rivers. Arakmbut women contribute equally to their informal economy like their male counterparts. However, access to quality and accessible educational practices that promote the use of these women’s literacies has not been addressed. Including the everyday...
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...The Kelowna Accord was supposed to mark the beginning of the end of the inequality suffered by the Indigenous people living in Canada. This paper argues that the smart financial move for the Harper Government would have been to use the Kelowna Accord as foundation and work up from there when drafting their annual budgets. Instead, he chose to spend an extra $5 billion on them without taking the time to ensure that the money would cause resurgence amongst the Indigenous people. As a result, the majority of the targets established in 2006 have not been met, leaving Trudeau no choice but to invest and additional $8 billion to achieve the very same goals. The Kelowna Accord had the possibility to solve a multitude of problems that had inadvertently...
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...Indigenous Cultures of Indonesia Today Erlangga Rajendra Geography 1500 Dr. Moshe Rapaport Indigenous Cultures of Indonesia Today The Republic of Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous nation, with a population of 203 million people living on around a thousand permanently occupied islands. The population is constituted by some 200-300 ethnic groups each speaking their own language and dialects. The Indonesian national culture is multicultural and is anchored on the older societies and interethnic relations. The national culture was developed by those who fought the Dutch colonialists in the 21st century. During this period, there were cultural stresses that the colonialists like the Dutch, the Portuguese and others brought to the indigenous people. The national culture is built having its, historical roots, institutions, values, beliefs and customs that were shared by many of the indigenous people. It is still being improved in the 21st century making it undergo certain stresses. This paper seeks to analyze to what extent corporate interest can be held responsible for the disappearance of native cultures (Countries and Their Cultures , 2012). The extent to which corporate interest can be held responsible is a dilemma that needs to assess the risks and benefits to a community. The basic principle of universality, equality and non-discrimination entitles the indigenous people to full range of rights that constitute the international law. Office of the High Commissioner...
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