Chinese sources suggest that there were at least two kingdoms in Cambodia, known as "Water Chenla" and "Land Chenla," that vied for recognition from China in that period.
President Mahmoud Abbas, frustrated by the right-wing Israeli government's refusal to strike a land-for-peace deal, decided to seek recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations.
Others continued to fight for recognition and land well into the early 21st century; the Western Shoshone, for instance, turned to the international court system in their efforts to regain their traditional landholdings.
The respondents were asked about their involvement in tree plantations, their support for and expectations from the afforestation programme for government land, their recognition of any benefits from such programmes and their views regarding the importance of afforestation programmes.
The community has been fighting for recognition that their land is unceded since 1862, but the modern incarnation of their fight began in 1975, when they signed a declaration asserting their rights to islands off their coast that had been promised to them in the 1836 agreement.
He has been aggressive in pressing for recognition, filing lawsuits, making land claims and defending the Schaghticokes against doubters.
"If this is approved for recognition as a restored land on fairly tenuous grounds, it would provide an incentive for other reservation-shopping opportunities," Mr. Gedes said.
Informal and marginalized urban communities, no matter how vibrant and well-established, inhabit a "no man's land" on the periphery of laws and institutions -- fighting for recognition and for protection.
"Special feeding or breeding places are now routinely protected on land for many species, because of the recognition that animals are vulnerable at this time or that their aggregated state is very important for their biology".
The Israeli demand for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state has solicited countermoves to reassert the Arab character of the land and reinforce the Palestinian historical narrative.
