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Canada news
fromThe Atlantic
5 days ago

Good Intentions Gone Bad

Court rulings are converting ceremonial land acknowledgments into legally enforceable claims that threaten private land titles and property values across British Columbia and possibly Canada.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister

Countries must recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as a key component of tackling the climate crisis, and civil society must help in the defence of such lands against mining interests, Brazil's minister for Indigenous peoples has said. Sonia Guajajara, a longtime Indigenous activist before being appointed a minister by President Lula da Silva, said: [Among the goals of the Cop30 summit is] a request that countries recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as climate policy.
Environment
Social justice
fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
1 month ago

A Sacred Responsibility: The Struggle to Restore Native Cultures in the South - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Native communities maintain profound spiritual, cultural, and governance relationships with land disrupted by settler-colonialism that treated land as commodity and erased histories.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

'On our own territory'

The Nukak people are reclaiming ancestral Amazon territory to revive their nomadic hunting-and-gathering lifestyle after decades of displacement and violence.
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