Although these communities applied for recognition of their traditional water rights under the 1993 Indigenous law, the situation proved intractable.
The settlers made two sets of laws: a civil law for the civilized, an indigenous law for everyone else.
Foreign laws have also frequently been "grafted" upon indigenous laws, as is seen in both Anglo-Muslim and Hindu law.
Some countries, for example, recognize common-law marriages as legal, while others do not; and in some Latin-American countries, marriages performed under indigenous tribal rites are not recorded as legal.
Some three hours before the game was set to begin, Judge Thomas McEwen dismissed his application, ruling that the name and logo of the Cleveland Indians is not discriminatory towards indigenous people under Canadian law.
It was a bitter irony that the Gweagal shield – and all other artefacts from the collection that were displayed in Encounters – were rendered legally immune under Australian Commonwealth law from Indigenous claim by the 2013 Protection of Cultural Objects on Loan Act.
Mass displacement to make way for commercial agriculture in the absence of a proper legal process contravenes Ethiopia's constitution and violates the rights of indigenous peoples under international law.
During a public update on the safeguard policy review in April, the World Bank unveiled plans to restrict the application of its Indigenous Peoples Policy in Africa, citing pressure from African governments who balk at the term "indigenous" and the implied recognition of the rights that indigenous peoples hold under international law.
The laws as they are written, Dalee Sambo, a University of Alaska-Anchorage political science professor, said, fail to specifically protect the rights of indigenous Alaskans – guaranteed under federal law – to sell ivory carvings and art.
Under the law, towns with indigenous and mestizo residents can reconcile perpetrators and victims in accordance with traditional methods; the community police formed institutions called casas de justicia, which tried people for minor crimes.
