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The articles examined Indigenous populations in both the United States and Canada. The systematic review resulted in three categories of research. 19 articles focused on health outcomes for Indigenous people who experienced historical loss either personally or transgenerationally.
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
A range of laws applying to or of specific relevance to Indigenous Australians.A number of laws have been passed since the European settlement of Australia, initially by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then by the Governors or legislature of each of the Australian colonies and more recently by the Parliament of Australia and that of each of its States and Territories, these laws ...
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII or PFII) is the UN's central coordinating body for matters relating to the concerns and rights of the world's indigenous peoples. There are more than 370 million indigenous people (also known as native, original, aboriginal and first peoples) in some 70 countries worldwide. [1]
Many of the treaties remain in effect and are of special importance regarding federal recognition of tribal status, hunting and fishing rights, rights to protection of sacred properties, rights to water and minerals, and land claims. [3] [4] The federal courts have a long, continuous history of litigation on these issues. The Supreme Court ...
Further dispossession of various kinds continues into the present, although these current dispossessions, especially in terms of land, rarely make major news headlines in the country (e.g., the Lenape people's recent fiscal troubles and subsequent land grab by the State of New Jersey), and sometimes even fail to make it to headlines in the ...
Karla Grant is an Australian presenter, producer and journalist for the SBS's national Indigenous current affairs program Living Black, focusing on issues concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities within Australia.
Indigenous people will suffer more because of their deep connection to the land. [13] The increased negative effects of climate change are also directly related to oppression and poverty and other issues caused by colonialism. [14] This is because indigenous peoples have experienced a series of traumatic invasions.