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Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian cultures.
More than six years after Pavel Sulyandziga, an Indigenous activist from Russia, left the country to seek political asylum in the US, he continues to face harassment by the Russian government.
Rather than have students memorize names and dates, this history curriculum invites students to grapple with real-life issues faced by people from the past.
A scholar of Native American and Indigenous rhetorics writes about the harm done to Native American nations through colonization and what can be done to reduce it.
The origins of the Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Sunrise Ceremony, held on the traditional lands of the Ohlone people, go back to 1969, a pivotal moment of Indigenous activism.
As detailed in a June 2023 event in Grenoble, France, business schools hold partial responsibility for the longstanding behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs) in indigenous territories.
The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.
Efforts are being made to develop the capacity of Native tribes to manage bison and bison habitats. An Indigenous scholar explains their sacred significance.
Popular culture often describes scalping − the forceful removing of a person’s scalp − as an indigenous practice. But white settlers accelerated this form of violence against Native Americans.
To the ǀXam and San people, being in the world as a person includes “the sky’s things” - an understanding of and deep connection with the cosmos.
New scientific discoveries are being made by drawing on Indigenous peoples’ ancestral knowledge about medicinal plants.
Hopefully more curators and custodians of repositories of human skeletal remains will attempt to redress some of the wrongs of the past.
More than being the social problem they are often made out to be, gangs are an indication of larger problems present in their societies.
The largest dam removal project is moving forward on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. Tribal nations there have fought for decades to protect native fish runs and the ecology of the river.
Indigenous children are taught jungle lore and survival skills from an early age.
We estimate more than 200 communities across Australia do not have community drinking water fountains. That must change.
A Steller’s sea eagle, native to the Asian Arctic, has traveled across North America since 2021. A scholar questions whether the bird is lost – and how well humans really understand animals’ actions.
What does ‘justice reinvestment’ mean in practice? Who makes funding decisions? To find out more, we consulted Aboriginal communities in Bourke, Moree and Mount Druitt.
It’s quite common to see whole Indigenous families on bikes – including pets and tiny children.
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Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Professor, School of Social and Political Sciences, Director, The (so-called) Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Partner Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Researcher in ethnobiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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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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Distinguished Professor, Charles Sturt University