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There is still much to be done to close the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the rest of the population in terms of social and economic development, culture, land, education, health, justice and human rights. This book looks at the progress of key rights issues confronting Australia's indigenous peoples, including historical civil rights milestones; land rights and native title; Reconciliation and the apology to the Stolen Generations; indigenous governance and self-determination; and constitutional recognition. Indigenous Rights also examines the government policy aimed

Indigenous efflorescence refers to the surprising economic prosperity, demographic increase and cultural renaissance currently found amongst many Indigenous communities around the world. This book moves beyond a more familiar focus on 'revitalisation' to situate these developments within their broader political and economic contexts. The materials in this volume also examine the everyday practices and subjectivities of Indigenous efflorescence and how these exist in tension with ongoing colonisation of Indigenous lands, and the destabilising impacts of global neoliberal capitalism. Contributions to this volume include both research articles and shorter case studies, and are drawn from amongst the Ainu and Sami (Saami/Sámi) peoples (in Ainu Mosir in northern Japan, and Sapmi in northern Europe, respectively). This volume will be of use to scholars working on contemporary Indigenous issues, as well as to Indigenous peoples engaged in linguistic and cultural revitalisation, and other aspects of Indigenous efflorescence.

This volume explores broad conceptual questions raised by the 'discovery' of indigenous peoples as increasingly important global political actors - questions made all the more urgent by the sudden recognition that indigenous diplomacies are not at all new, but merely newly noticed

"It's about the European fascination with the Indigenous peoples of North America and includes Indigenous responses to that phenomenon. The volume connects German Studies with Indigenous Studies to show how 'Indianthusiasm' creates barriers as well as opportunities for Indigenous peoples with German people and in Germany."--

Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Canada -- Chapter 1. Indigenous Homelessness: Canadian Context -- Chapter 2. ""They Don't Let Us Look after Each Other Like We Used To"": Reframing Indigenous Homeless Geographies as Home/Journeying in the Northwest Territories, Canada -- Chapter 3. The Importance of Hidden Homelessness in the Housing Strategies of Urban Indigenous People -- Chapter 4. No Dumping: Indigenousness and the Racialized Police Transport of the Urban Homeless

Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical underpinnings to the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice. Written by leading criminologists specialising in Indigenous justice issues, the book argues for the importance of Indigenous knowledges and methodologies to criminology, and suggests that colonialism needs to be a fundamental concept to criminology in order to understand contemporary problems such as deaths in custody, high imprisonment rates, police brutality and the high levels of violence in some Indigenous communities. Prioritising the voices of Indigenous peoples, the work will make a significant contribution to the development of a decolonising criminology and will be of wide interest

"Investigates the complexities of urban American Indian life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Examines Indigenous experiences in the city, focusing on identity formation, education, welfare, health care, community organizations, and community efforts to counter colonization"--Provided by publisher

Powerful parallels: deep ecology and the writings of Vine Deloria Jr. -- Environmental injustice, land, and American Indian religious freedom -- Environmental injustices and state-corporate crime on Navajo and Hopi lands -- Environmental racism: contaminated water in indigenous and minority communities -- Two cases of navigating legal complexity: environmental justice in Barrow and Tar Creek -- The water-energy nexus and environmental justice: the missing link between water rights and energy production on tribal lands -- Not in our lands: a Canadian comparative case study of indigenous resistance strategies to natural resource development in British Columbia and the Arctic -- Urban Native American women as environmental justice leaders.

Indigenous peoples have been cast as representing modernity?s fading premodern0Other. This volume starts from the opposite assumption, namely that0contemporary indigenous peoples are specifically modern societies, profoundly0shaped by their specific ways of dealing with, making use of and transforming the0contexts imposed by nation-states, colonial systems and globalization. They do that0from a position alternative to that of the modern West. The book aims to0understand these processes and the resulting forms of indigenous modernities in0Lowland South America through ethnographic case studies. It argues that there is0more about indigenous modernities than the simple assertion that indigenous0peoples are now modern too.0Indigenous groups are modern in multiple, complex and alternative ways. As the0contributions show this holds true for current forms of shamanism and indigenous0Christian churches, new meanings of traditional clothing, as well as indigenous0cosmologies that confront western concepts, technology and welfare programs.0The notion of indigenous modernities refers to a space beyond old modernist0dichotomies. The paradox, like the disturbing Otherness it brings to our attention,0is the result of a relation in which assumptions we take ontologically for granted0are confronted by other realities. Looking at the creative ways indigenous peoples?0practices subvert such assumptions may result in substantial irritation and is a0starting point for a renewed reflection on classical assumptions about modernities0and indigenous ways of both being modern and exceeding modernity in the face of0long-standing power inequalities and the imposition of logics of Western ontology