Sentence examples for of native lands from inspiring English sources
But, as the tour is meant to illustrate, ties to the old ways of native lands remain strong.
The payout is the largest ever under the 1971 law, which created the corporations and gave them more than $960 million as compensation for the loss of native lands.
Mr. West said the museum "would not dodge" addressing the troubles that have plagued Indian communities since the arrival of colonial powers 500 years ago, from the capture of native lands to the poverty and alcoholism common today on Indian reservations.
Struggle for the Land (1993; reissued 2002) is a collection of essays in which Churchill chronicles what he describes as the U.S. government's systematic exploitation of Native lands and the killing or displacement of American Indians.
Over time, this doctrine was used in concert with other colonial practices to accomplish mass cessions of Native lands, making an operational mockery of face value diplomacy and fair trade.
Indigenous peoples have identified certain stressors as causes of poor health, such as loss of native lands, culture, and identity; covert and overt racism; marginalization; and powerlessness [ 14- 17].
He also became involved in Native American land-claim issues, alcohol-abuse counseling, and the preservation of Native land in Seattle.
The federal government must honor its promises to tribes, which paid for health care in advance by ceding millions of acres of native land to the federal government.
Except for a few years early in the 20th century, the alienation of native land has been prohibited since 1874, thus leaving nearly nine-tenths of all land under Fijian ownership.
In this sense, dynamics of native land cover/vegetation patterns (natural units) have helped in enormously to provide base line information and predict outcomes.
Finally, we should not forget, however, that there have always been some critical voices around, and Davis mentions a couple of these from the colonial period: first, the French General Cavaignac's report from 1849 that included a critique, although gentle, of desiccation views and reflected a nuanced understanding of native land use in Algeria (Jacquot, 1849).
