Indigenous peoples

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• Navajo court bars candidate for tribal presidency over language doubts

  22 Oct 2014: Chris Deschene, accused of not being fluent in Navajo tongue, told decision to throw out appeal against earlier ruling is final

• Death in custody of Ms Dhu: calls for fresh Indigenous royal commission

  21 Oct 2014: Nationwide protests planned on Thursday after young Yamatji woman dies while in a WA watchhouse for unpaid parking fines

• The 'great indigenous divide': Winnipeg stares into an ethnic chasm

  21 Oct 2014: On the eve of an election, Winnipeg, home to Canada’s largest urban indigenous population, is finally grappling with a social division reminiscent of US cities before the civil rights movement
  

• The indigenous land rights ruling that could transform Canada

  21 Oct 2014: Martin Lukacs: Indigenous rights offer a path to a radically more just and sustainable country – which is why the Canadian government is bent on eliminating them

• Paulo Scott: ‘literature is not an easy truth’

  16 Oct 2014: Brazil’s indigenous people are rarely portrayed in literature. But they are at the heart of former lawyer and activist Paulo Scott’s innovative novel, Nowhere People. He spoke to Richard Lea

• Artist Ken Thaiday brings life on the Torres Strait Islands to the city

  15 Oct 2014: The Erub Islander takes Monica Tan on a tour of his latest exhibition inspired by the joy and perils of living with sharks

• Rottnest Island: the internment camp turned favourite holiday destination, without debate

  14 Oct 2014: Celeste Liddle: Australians are renowned for their love of travel. But when it comes to Rottnest Island, this comes at the cost of ignoring the violence Aboriginal people have endured

• The US can learn a lot from New Zealand on how to embrace indigenous cultures

  13 Oct 2014: Can you imagine NBA players performing a Native American grass dance in an act of team solidarity and national unity? In New Zealand, no one bats an eye

• The future of Navajo Nation depends on the election issue everyone should be talking about

  13 Oct 2014: Jaynie Parrish: A presidential run may be thwarted by a language the US government tried to stamp out, but the generational identity crisis will redefine us either way

• In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue ... and slaughtered the indigenous peoples he found

  13 Oct 2014: You told us about the Christopher Columbus that didn’t appear in your history books. The lesson: happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!

• Casino at centre of armed tribal showdown closed by California judge

  11 Oct 2014: Chukchansi Gold resort and casino is ordered closed after tribal factions with weapons caused gamblers to flee the tables

• Navajo tribe disqualifies presidential candidate over language fluency

  10 Oct 2014: Officials try to test Chris Deschene’s Navajo fluency to confirm he meets law’s requirement but he refuses to answer questions

• Gadrian Hoosan: the land is the most important thing for Indigenous people

  10 Oct 2014: IndigenousX: The government and mining companies need to know that we are going to fight to protect it, for future generations both black and white

• Jail with checkered past takes in Native American inmates to fill empty cells

  9 Oct 2014: Two Rivers detention centre, which bid for Guantánamo detainees and fell for a conman, becomes rehab-like facility

• Paraguay’s Supreme Court issues ‘historic’ land ruling

  7 Oct 2014: David Hill: Cattle-ranchers’ legal action versus expropriation of 1,000s of hectares in favour of the indigenous Enxet people is rejected

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