Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples have been resisting against the colonial drawn borders in both parts of the world. This resistance is seen physically on reserves as well as in legal battle against the powerful federal, states and corporate nexus in North America. While the…

Keeper’n Me, an award-winning book by Richard Wagamese, introduced an original perspective into the way the Indigenous peoples see the world around them. The author gave his own unique narrative, partly based on his own experiences as an Ojibway hailing from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Northwestern Ontario (Smith, 1994). In addition to writing Medicine Walk (2014), Dream Wheels (2006), Ragged Company (2009), and Indian Horse (2012), the 59-year-old author, born in 1955, has been recognized…

who may not directly relate to Indigenous injustices to in turn relate through their passion for the environment. David Harvey (2015), holds that for political change to occur in contemporary society, a wide alliance of various…

This place is teeming with life; vegetation, animals, and indigenous ethnic groups across hundreds of thousands of miles. There are about 80,000 species of plants, 3 million species of insects, 10 million species of animals, and 50 indigenous ethnic groups living in the Amazon alone. There are so many trees in the Amazon that 20% of the world’s oxygen comes from this rainforest. People who occupy the Amazon are native tribes…

distinguished if there are not characteristics that make them different from surrounding peoples. Once again the works of Lemkin through the drafting of the UNGC illustrate this point. He emphasized that physical and cultural existence are one in the same insofar as an ‘attack on a group’s physical existence is also an attack on it’s cultural existence, and vice versa.’ Cultures shape the worldview people hold, the view and understanding of human rights, the reasons for protecting human…

contracted engineers to manage a plant for several years after its completion (ibid). The second inefficiency of INAC is the lack of communication with Indigenous communities. Hans Peterson, who has developed water systems for twenty years with the Safe Drinking Water Foundation (SDWF), comments on INAC’s unwillingness to discuss water infrastructure with Indigenous communities. “if INAC wants a community to have a specific process, the community has to put up a fight to get a different process,…

responder rejects the offer, both of them end up with no money while if the responder accepts, the sum of money will be allocated accordingly to the initial offer. This experiment was conducted throughout multiple cultures such as United States to more indigenous cultures such as Machinegun and Hadza. Those were done to understand the economic behaviors among the variety of cultures and…

Cattle ranching The Environmental Defense Fund stated, when methane is in the air it absorbs the sun’s heat, and then warms the atmosphere. While methane doesn’t linger as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, it is initially far more devastating to the climate because of how effectively it absorbs heat. More heat, less rain, more drought, no more Amazon, a quite simple turn of events going wrong extremely fast. There are Land Sparing policies in act to help reduce greenhouse gasses. The…

The determination of colonialism is based on extending sovereign authority beyond the borders by establishing an administrative dependency in a particular territory. The indigenous communities are compelled to submit to the colonial rule or get displaced. Colonialism is built on imperialistic tendencies where the colonial authority exercises domination over labor, markets, and resources. Consequently, the colonial establishments may impose linguistic or socio-cultural structures effectively…

its citizens and its institutions to have an understanding of decolonization and reconciliation methods. As a majour city within the established nation, Toronto has employed a simple method of acknowledging Canada 's history by naming streets after people that the nation believes to be worth honouring. Yet these surface patches of honour may be understood as continued acts of oppression, colonial power and of the insincere desire for reconciliation. In this paper, I will argue that Toronto 's…