But, significantly, known or established places of Indigenous cultural importance are not recognised under state legislation and, therefore, are ineligible for protection if they have previously undergone "significant ground disturbance".
Non-Indigenous healthcare workers also recognised the critical importance of Indigenous health workers in creating and maintaining that space and ensuring that the women understood the health education and care provided.
Evidence relevant to the reasons behind poor timeliness in Australian Indigenous people supports the importance of socioeconomic factors and knowledge of the importance of timeliness.
James has written extensively about the importance to Indigenous and other Australians of songlines.
I asked Maynard, grandson of the early Indigenous activist Fred Maynard, what importance he attached to commemorating events like Myall Creek.
"They need to know the importance of indigenous folkways, to understand that patients will come to them with different belief systems".
His views on literature, signaling the importance of indigenous themes and language while adhering to avant-garde artistic tendencies, provided the means to reevaluate Peruvian culture.
The importance of indigenous knowledge is being increasingly realized for identifying sustainable interventions enabling environmental conservation coupled with socio-economic development of local communities.
The secondary and tertiary sectors have less importance in indigenous communities than in other societies and, again, in all cases, the self-employment rate is higher for the indigenous population than for the non-indigenous population.
Proponents of indigenous sovereignty emphasize the importance of understanding indigenous claims against the historical background of the denial of equal sovereign status of indigenous groups, the dispossession of their lands, and the destruction of their cultural practices (Ivison 2006, Ivison et al. 2000, Moore 2005, Simpson 2000).
