Sentence examples for indigenous autonomy from inspiring English sources
Rather than simply an arena for Euroamerican domination, recent archaeological research on Spanish missionization along the North American Borderlands points to opportunities for indigenous autonomy under missionary colonialism.
About five years ago, Chinese leaders expanded the term to include Tibet and Xinjiang, two provinces with indigenous autonomy movements that Beijing has worked feverishly to control.
Since the 1990s the region has become the centre of indigenous autonomy movements—such as the Zapatista National Liberation Army which have gained worldwide notoriety.
Now he and other rebel leaders seek to rejuvenate the movement by forcing forward the vision of indigenous autonomy, with or without the acquiescence of the authorities.
"The project 'Indigenous Autonomy and Resistance in Mexico' is the result of six years of work in two allied communities in the state of Michoacan.
The model offers a way in which to expand mission archaeology by illuminating the opportunities for indigenous autonomy in social, political, and economic relationships that intersected colonial modes in various ways across time and space.
This week the administration presented Congress with a bill granting Mexico's indigenous people limited autonomy.
It would amend the constitution to give indigenous people more autonomy in their government, justice system and culture.
At the centre of this is a new constitution that would increase the state's role in the economy, strengthen the powers of the president, weaken the judiciary and give some indigenous communities greater autonomy.
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos announced this week that the country will add 31,000 square miles of land to its protected areas and will also give indigenous communities the autonomy to govern their own territories, according to Mongabay and Thomson Reuters.
The accord turned most of the region back into a borderland, a region where states exerted limited authority, indigenous peoples retained autonomy, and liminal figures like traders enjoyed considerable influence.
