Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.
Articles on Indigenous land rights
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China’s national government policies on energy and economic development are changing pastoral life on the Tibetan Plateau.
Beyond the Meeting of the Waters reminds us that the campaign for justice is a long and abiding process. It is not measured in moments, but generations.
The federal government’s deal with Alberta over a pipeline to British Columbia is offside for many reasons — and will deepen divisions among Canadian provinces.
We tend to view private property as a sacrosanct, never-changing principle. But property rights are legal constructs — never absolute and always evolving.
Accelerated resource development in Canada should not burden future generations with environmental destruction.
The Land Rights Act was a step toward Indigenous self-determination. Communities took back the right to manage and protect their own cultural heritage.
A groundbreaking decision in Europe may signal a shift in the way we engage with Indigenous land rights beyond property rhetoric.
The islands’ vulnerability has roots deep in the exploitative systems forced on them by colonialism, from slave-based land policies to ill-suited development that put lives in harm’s way.
The Yolngu Bark Petitions were immediately recognised by many as emblems of the unshakeable confidence of Indigenous Australians in their right to their territory.
The emergence of a well-resourced rival claim to Indigenous land rights is of growing concern to the Innu people of Labrador-Quebec.
The recent title lands agreement between British Columbia and the Haida Nation is historic and inspiring, but also long overdue in light of decades of rulings by international human rights bodies.
Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.
Twenty-five years after the landmark Delgamuukw case, Canada is still failing to fulfil its legal obligations to Indigenous Peoples.
Wilma Mankiller’s groundbreaking tenure as chief of the Cherokee Nation introduced the US to the power of Indigenous women’s leadership.
To fully implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Canada must engage in genuine and inclusive law reform.
First Nations leaders Pabai Pabai and Paul Kabai filed a landmark class action against the Australian government to protect communities in the Torres Strait from climate change.
Colonialism is manifested by the way pollution impacts the lives of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Two Indigenous environmental scientists discuss how they’ve overcome obstacles in their research.
Noront Resources share prices are climbing, but so too is Indigenous opposition to its proposing mining projects in the Ring of Fire. Now the mine’s viability is being called into question.
The A Way Forward report addresses the issues of cultural heritage protection in Australia after Rio Tinto destroyed Juukan Gorge. However, achieving change will be far from straightforward.
Top contributors
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UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) and Professor in Political Science, Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Chair of National Native Title Council and Ngalia Cultural Leader | EthnoEcologist, Indigenous Knowledge
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Adjunct professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Economic Researcher, York University, Canada
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Professor of Agricultural Development, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, University of Regina
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Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor of Linguistics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Environment and Development, Australian National University