Struggle for Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Expropriation in Contemporary North America.
The Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Insight and Industrial Empire in the Semiarid World.
At least half of that is Aboriginal land – Indigenous Australians have been its custodians for more than 50,000 years.
Governments often do not recognise land titles of Indians and the big landowners just take the land". Indigenous leaders want an immediate cessation to mining on their lands.
Jonathan Mazower, advocacy director, Survival International, London, UK. @Survival Without land, indigenous peoples have no livelihood, no identity, no means of survival.
By asserting that they were the first peoples of the land, indigenous leaders compelled the powerful settler states that surrounded them to negotiate their rights and status.
Half of these were protecting land, indigenous rights or environmental rights.
Even though there is a blanket of asphalt over the land, Indigenous stories were here way before Toronto was.
In that pattern of a landed, indigenous people, every seven years, the Land and the People rested from organized agriculture and all debts were annulled.
On vivid display there is the search for solutions to the problems addressed in this Harvesting Justice series: the piracy of land, indigenous territories, agriculture, food systems, and the global commons.
