By contrast, in Scandinavia indigenous procedure adapted itself and was able to resist displacement by foreign law.
"For too many years under successive governments, the constant change in approach taken in Indigenous affairs has, itself, become a barrier to improving outcomes for first Australians".
"While reducing early childhood service access for vulnerable families is an adverse outcome in itself, Indigenous services are particularly impacted given the high proportion of vulnerable children and families they serve," Atkinson said.
Reviving Indigenous languages is in itself a response to a history of oppression and denial.
This is why there is frequently a dual emphasis on a group's describing itself as indigenous, and its acceptance as such by other indigenous groups.
Come now!" After three flights and a long drive, I arrived in the town in the early hours of New Year's Day to find it was being taken over by an indigenous Mayan group calling itself the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).
Unlike two other groups that were declared terrorist and banned last week under American and Indian pressure, Hizbul Mujahedeen has not engaged in aggressive recruitment in Pakistan and it describes itself as indigenous.
In fact, the Liberals' attempt to wrap themselves in the UN Declaration without embracing its central right may constitute a new, more subtle form of extraction: the extraction from Indigenous territory of consent itself.
"It presumably brought in the foreign exchanges that sent us through development, but the indigenous economy of agriculture itself had to flounder and we live in a country, 50 years on, after having a pretty sophisticated agricultural system, where we still have people who don't have enough to eat".
I might have been indigenous to the land itself, but I was a first-generation cultural immigrant to the United States.
