Part of an Indigenous ancestral trail was cleared by a logging company last summer, despite it being a protected cultural site under Alberta law.
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In this episode of our podcast, we take a look at Indigenous land rights and the people on the frontlines of these battles.
A web of local environmental action campaigns launched against oilsands pipelines a decade ago helped bring an end to Keystone XL.
Before the goldrush, Indigenous people told stories about how the bronzewing pigeon seeded precious minerals across the land. Europeans stole not just land, but the value deep within it.
The decision recognises that water rights are critical for Indigenous people to restore customs, protect their culture, become economically independent and heal Country.
Our medicine, cosmetics and other everyday products contain compounds taken from nature. But Traditional Owners may not have given permission for the materials or their knowledge to be used.
Land Defenders from Six Nations occupied a disputed land to highlight the fact that Canadians have a long way to go when it comes to learning what land acknowledgements are supposed to teach us.
For non-Indigenous Australians, the last summer of bushfires seemed to mark the end times. Indigenous Australians have a long perspective on history, which offers hope.
The Bolsonaro government cannot simply allow Brazil’s out-of-control coronavirus pandemic to decimate its Indigenous population, Brazil’s Supreme Court says.
Indigenous communities were already suffering badly under Bolsonaro. Now, COVID-19 threatens their very survival.
Surviving COVID-19 means reconsidering what type of world we want to build and live in, together. We can no longer feign being a democracy that is not democratic.
Many Australians would like to engage with Indigenous people and history but say they don’t know how. Taking an Indigenous tour is one way to do this and take responsibility for reconciliation.
Two ABC television premieres – both about the mid-century British nuclear testing at Maralinga in regional South Australia – approach tricky territory in very different ways.
An honest reckoning with Captain Cook’s legacy won’t heal things overnight. But it’s a start
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The impact of 1770 has never eased for Aboriginal people. It was a collision of catastrophic proportions.
Botany was an integral feature of Britain’s colonial and imperial ambitions.
Signatures developed to replace rituals as a form of legal validation. Indigenous people have seen their marks used against them and rallied communities to use signatures in innovative protests.
The world’s millions of indigenous people play a critical role in conserving biodiversity.
A new study revealed that indigenous territories store more than half the carbon in the Amazon forest.
The RCMP have long been responsible for violence against Indigenous people.
Indigenous kinship networks link each plant to the next and connect us to Country. Honouring this way of being and engaging in fair collaboration might give power to our heartbreak.
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Post doctoral fellow and Conservation Ecologist, Macquarie University
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Associate Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong
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Senior Fellow, Development Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Darug custodian. Assistant Manager Blue Mountains Aboriginal Culture & Resource Centre. Adjunct Fellow, Department of Geography & Planning, Macquarie University, Macquarie University
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ARC Industry Fellow, Adelaide University
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Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW
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Executive Director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University; King's College London
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Professor of Environmental Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London