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Roberto Borrero will never forget standing in the United Nations General Assembly on the day that countries voted to approve the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It was September 13, ...

GUWAHATI, India, Feb 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - M illions of migrants and tribal people in India's northeastern Assam state could be denied land because of a new definition of the term ...

Indigenous people are those who are native to a region. Throughout history, many of these populations have faced opposition to be able to stay on their original land. (Many were forced to relocate or ...

What do we mean when we say “indigenous”? In biology, a plant or animal is indigenous to a place if it has adapted so well to the environment after millions of years of evolution. In social science, ...

Sean Carleton receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Andrew Woolford has received funding from Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, Truth and ...