It is clear that indigenous peoples have been recognised; but it is also clear that legal recognition does not mean that the rights, territories, resources and cultures of indigenous peoples are respected.
The two countries have a long history of tensions over territory, resources and other issues.
In the competition for territory, resources and political power, taking has proved as indispensable to economic success – if not more so – than making.
They are trying to walk a fine line between giving ethnic and religious groups the territory, resources and autonomy they demand, and ensuring that such power does not give rise to dangerous nationalisms.
How should France, the U.S., and their allies fight a jihadi organization that controls territory, resources, and populations in the ungoverned spaces of the Middle East, and that also has the will and ability to strike hard in the West, deploying hostile citizens of the countries it wants to hit?
Since the beginning of human history, humans have bickered constantly over territory, resources, and power.
The federal government administers the territories' natural resources through the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
The Nazi overlords of occupied Europe drained their conquered territories of resources to feed the German war machine.
Tuntiak Katan, of the confederation of indigenous nationalities of Ecuador (Confeniae), said the state "legally steals and usurps our territory declaring resource extraction a national priority".
Their lives are intertwined with the forests and they are integral members of indigenous and local communities, and have contributed to the governance of their territories and resources.
