In the two separate cases in which village education was supported by the project, one community succeeded and the other failed (at least temporarily) in establishing and maintaining a village school as their indigenous (locally owned) project (see Table 1).
And it's not simply the case of Indigenous populations owning the land, but looking at the contention between Indigenous groups about that right to give land away.
Brazil's draft national REDD law also states that indigenous people own the forest carbon of their reserves.
While the thought of a group of indigenous people owning a mine, and profiting from the exploitation of natural resources, may shock some, and is certainly not supported by all community members, Cruz Plaza thinks it is a sensible idea.
And Mitchell became president of Canada's first Indigenous owned-and-operated licensed producer (LP).
Dam and mining megaprojects are eating into land owned by indigenous tribes.
One exploratory well backed by BP and Chevron was drilled years ago on land owned by indigenous peoples within the refuge.
It criticized World Bank projects in Colombia and Ecuador, for example, saying that mining supported by the bank had fouled land owned by indigenous peoples and had led to a weakening of their legal rights.
In the South, after the land was snatched from the indigenous people, it was owned by the king back in Spain, then by a few greedy noblemen such as this Jeronimo de Aliaga dude.
When new businesses formed or existing ones expanded, they demanded land, including that owned by indigenous peoples.
The farmers, who work plots collectively owned as indigenous communal lands under Mexican law, replied something along the lines of "over my dead body".
