Sentence examples for indigenous governance from inspiring English sources

Amazon Conservation Team works with these communities and with local and national governments to secure indigenous governance of vital ecosystems.

Aflaj are maintained by designated local people who are responsible for the efficient system of water distribution for irrigation; government agencies are not involved in these indigenous governance structures (Al-Marshudi 2007; MRMWR 2008).

Indigenous governance, patterns and practices of rule by which indigenous people govern themselves in formal and informal settings.

In other countries, for example Mexico, “indigenist” policies sought to impose education, agriculture and social programmes devised by central government, with little recognition of local cultural knowledge and indigenous governance.

Indigenous governance refers to the myriad ways in which these peoples have governed themselves or continue doing so despite the fact of colonization.

Hayden King, director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University, said while it was wonderful to hear the government would adopt the declaration without any qualifiers, he was skeptical after hearing the minister tout modern treaties.

And we are currently seeing more sovereignty-reinforcing protest actions; activists have taken steps to renounce Australian citizenship and have attempted to clear customs using Aboriginal passports, as well as the removed themselves from all systems of non-Indigenous governance.

Despite numerous reports and commissions to determine a path towards indigenous self governance, the pace has remained frustratingly slow, says Naiomi Metallic, a law professor at Dalhousie University.

All of these institutions have evolved ways of doing things out of histories in which the very idea of indigenous environmental governance was overtly and subtly marginalized.

First, the view that TEK and science must be labeled as such, and kept distinct, misses the realities of indigenous environmental governance today.

The violations of their rights to consultation and consent – around land acquisition, environmental impacts, indigenous self-governance and the use of traditional lands – has led to serious impacts on their lives and livelihoods," she said.