Globally, sacred groves represent a traditional form of community-based conservation, recognized for their capacity to preserve areas that are of cultural and religious importance to local people. In most cases, the entire community takes on a watchdog role to guard against encr…
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On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JST) is enacting contested approaches of reclaiming tribal histories threatened by persistent 19th century settler colonial narratives of ethnic erasure. Legally exiled from their capital village in 1871 as a resu…
Introduction: It is well known, and well documented that Indigenous conceptualizations of wellness differ from Western conceptualizations. Using Western parameters and formulations to appraise Indigenous health and wellness is highly problematic.
Canadian law is legally pluralistic and combines common law, civil law, and Indigenous legal traditions. Roman law has contributed largely to both the Canadian common law and civil law traditions while Indigenous law has developed from its own belief system and history. Conflict…
Public memory on Block Island largely ignores Black and Indigenous labor, life, and legacy. Reclaiming the past and present narratives of Black and Indigenous peoples on Block Island challenges historical erasure; their experiences can then become a meaningful part of the collec…
This dissertation addresses the genocidal practices of the U.S. educational policies in connection to the Indian boarding schools and the problematic method through which white scholars and teachers have aided in the erasure of Indigenous cultures and violence against Indigenous…
Fieldwork for this thesis was undertaken in the Country of the Ndrrua'ngaith / Wathayn people on the Weipa Peninsula, western Cape York, far north Queensland, Australia. My research formed part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project (LP110100180) Enhancing Cultu…
My doctoral study began with my interest in discovering what influences from my past Nunavik teaching experience inform my present teaching practice in Southern Quebec. Despite the fact that many teachers who teach in Indigenous communities continue to be non-Indigenous, surpris…
American Indigenous populations, American Indians (AIs), and Alaska Natives (ANs) have experienced historically traumatic events over the past 500 years, and Native Hawaiians (NHs) over the last 240 years from contact with Europeans, and the subsequent colonization, and appropri…
This study frames the Bedouin land issue through the indigenous peoples' perspective in order to discover a new approach to recognizing Bedouin land rights in Israel. The conflict between the State of Israel and the Negev Bedouin over land is a major conflict within the State. T…
In the context of historical marginalization of indigenous people from diverse ethnic communities in Bangladesh, this study will investigate how mainstream researches and writings, in books, research reports, newspapers, and blogs on indigenous issues have ignored women's relega…
At the foundation of the United States rests, just below the surface, a story of conquest and genocide of indigenous peoples in Central and North America. The actions of Christopher Columbus and the earliest colonists in North America were undergirded by a view of the world, in …
This dissertation focuses on how indigenous people in Sabah, Malaysia--in particular, the Kadazandusun--navigate contemporary life. Specifically, it explores the ways in which Kadazandusun employ aspects of their historical cultures within the context of the annual Harvest Festi…
In recent years, indigenous rights activists have impelled the Mexican government to claim a 'multicultural' approach toward indigenous populations in lieu of its longstanding assimilation approach. Situated within this context, this dissertation investigates formulations of ind…