Sentences with phrase «indigenous land base»

Proposals and decisions that seek to alter the Indigenous land base are of particular significance in my role as Social Justice Commissioner given Australia's obligations under national and international instruments with respect to Indigenous people's rights to non-discriminatory treatment and ownership and control of land.

Indigenous leaders, the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (Minister Vanstone), as well as the Prime Minister have expressed concern that the Indigenous land base has not been effectively used to improve economic and social outcomes in communities.

At its February 2005 meeting the NIC commenced consideration of how the now considerable Indigenous land base might be best used to facilitate the economic development of Indigenous people, including individual home ownership and entrepreneurship.

The NIC and liberal commentators in the debate suggest that the Indigenous land base should be used to lift Indigenous communities out of poverty.

The NIC states its support for using the Indigenous land base to enable individual home ownership and business development.

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Currently the J - 15 launches using a ski - jump arrangement as with Russian and soon UK aircraft but at least one modified J - 15 was photographed with a catapult bridle on its nose wheel for land - based testing of a new magnetic catapult system likely to be used on the next Chinese aircraft carrier, the yet - to - be-named CV - 18, Type 002 aircraft carrier of entirely Chinese indigenous design to be built by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.

The pollution judgment against Chevron issued in 2011 based on 105 technical evidentiary reports showing the oil major dumped billions of gallons of cancer - causing oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands.

And, after the white South African government enacted the 1913 Natives Land Act establishing the principle of territorial segregation based on race, indigenous black independent churches rose up in often violent protest.

The Pope has celebrated Mass at a former military base in Chile that not only lies on land contested by the indigenous Mapuche people, but was also a detention centre used during the country's brutal dictatorship.

But while the challenges posed to rural communities in Honduras are great, so are the opportunities: in the last decade, the government has begun handing over land rights to some local and indigenous people, providing an excellent basis for efforts to create sustainable forest economies.

These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.

If the home - based artists got these images wrong, consider the place of the indigenous American in Moran's work, glimpsed only as shadows across their own vast land.

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Deficit and race - based assumptions in Indigenous education: At Thornbury Primary School in Victoria, all students (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) are taught the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people — the traditional owners of the land the school is on.

Culture College is an Arnhem Land - based Indigenous cultural and outdoor education immersion program tailored for secondary school students and designed to simultaneously educate and inspire our «leaders of tomorrow» and to invigorate the local homeland economies in the Northern Territory.

This case study report examines how three key components of an Indigenous - centred program — land - based learning, spirituality, and the Medicine Wheel — have created a template for heightened student engagement and retention.

Since this planning tool integrates the Rice Terraces Master Plan and indigenous knowledge, it can be an effective tool to facilitate the development of the community based land use and zoning plan, which is also a requirement for accessing funds.

Current projects include Rule of the Trees, a public art project at Commercial Broadway SkyTrain station and BUSH gallery, a conceptual land - based gallery grounded in Indigenous knowledges.

Her art practice centres around BUSH gallery, a site of land - based experimental and conceptual Indigenous art futurity.

COMMUNITY BASED & COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL JUSTICE WORK WITH ONAMAN COLLECTIVE Youth Art Mural Project: John F. Ross Secondary School, Guelph, ON (May 2016) Anishinaabemowin Wiigwaam: Ojibway Immersion Language House (Mar & Oct 2015, Mar 2016) Words from the Land: Youth & Elders art retreat (Mar 2016) Youth Run for the Language (Oct 2015) The Painted Hand: Gathering to Feast Our Historic Alliances (Sept 2015) Reconciliation, Resurgence & Storytelling with Maria Campbell (Aug 2015) Canoe Building with Youth: Chippewas of the Thames (July / Aug 2015) Harvesting ochre & making paint (June 2015) Research with Elders on traditional knowledge and the language in Ontario & Saskatchewan (June & Aug 2015) Moosehide Tanning (April 2015) The Sacred Fisher Story: The Youth Mural Project (April 2015) Anishinaabemowin Wiigwaam: Ojibway Immersion Language House (Mar 2015) Onaman Kendaagozid: Gathering about Sacred Paint (Feb 2015) Research into traditional Indigenous tattoos and face / body ochre paint (on - going) Collaborative creation of art pieces by Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt (on - going)

In her work Frei Njootli synthesizes Indigenous land - based systems of knowledge and traditional practices through sculptural works, residue, printed images, and sound - based performance.

L.A. - based artist Raul Baltazar, who recently staged a performance piece as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA that dealt with the past, present, and future of the city's Chicanx community, said he wondered what Büchel's relationship to the border was, citing an indigenous mantra of «all of my relations,» referring to one's relationship to any topic, particularly fellow humans and the land.

His teaching philosophy comes from his personal experience of Active Participation and experiential learning through his work as Indigenous knowledge and wisdom keeper, and observations through land - based pedagogy.

This collection includes a diverse range of works exemplifying art from Cape York and Queensland's far north, contemporary urban - based indigenous art, Torres Strait Islander art, Desert painting, the Hermannsburg School of watercolour landscape painting, as well as arts and crafts from Arnhem Land and northern Australia.

REDD is a complicated and contentious issue, but this much is clear: any approach to reducing deforestation must be based in human rights, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, land tenure reform, and territorial sovereignty.

However, indigenous communities are an exception to this, with constitutional guarantees to all land - based rights like carbon.

The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C. - based forest conservation group, could boost the efforts of indigenous groups seeking compensation for preserving forest on their lands, effectively paving the way for large - scale indigenous - led conservation of the Amazon rainforest.

The portfolio review revealed that IFAD strengths concerning adaptation lie in the following areas: (i) community empowerment, (ii) promoting access to land and natural resources, (iii) supporting community - based approaches, (iv) addressing the gender dimension, (v) building on traditional and indigenous knowledge, and (vi) supporting pro-poor research.

Aboriginal title in Canada refers to Aboriginal rights to land based on long - standing land use and occupancy by contemporary Indigenous peoples and their ancestors as the original peoples in Canada.

Indigenous governance structures are based in ceremonial lodges and spiritual laws stemming from the connection Indigenous Peoples have with the land.

Secwepemc land defender, Kanahus Manuel stated: «Kinder Morgan is misleading investors by suggesting they have secured the land base and Indigenous consent for the Trans Mountain pipeline.

He also established CIRA as a leader in the domain name industry in the use of social media.Prior to joining CIRA, Mark spent a decade working in Indigenous health policy, first as a Community Development Officer at an Inuit land claim organization in the Western Canadian Arctic, then as the Director of Communications and Research at the National Aboriginal Health Organization in Ottawa.Mark is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Students from the University of Windsor Law School and Western Law School have been involved in indigenous land - based legal experiences at nearby reserves with University of Windsor Law School and Chippewa of the Thames in southwestern Ontario.

A stable and enduring basis for a dynamic and long term relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people over land is emerging through negotiation and agreement - making.

The NIC Principles aim to secure «improved social and economic outcomes from [the Indigenous] land base now and into the future, but in a way that maintains Indigenous communal ownership».12 They are:

Mabo created a discontinuity between what was regarded before and after Mabo as an acceptable basis for the common law treatment of Indigenous rights to land.

These two systems are based on quite different premises and values, but the two have to find a way to interact as they coexist over the same land and in the case of land and native title rights, Indigenous laws have legal effect in the European system.

So one of the fundamental principles that the Democrats base their support for this disallowance motion on is the fact that the State regimes are based on legislation which, at the end of the day, will not hold up», Senator Woodley as reported in Senate 2000, Debates, No. 16, p19520 The speaker from the Greens party said «I will be voting for this disallowance because the regulations brought forward from Western Australian legislation do not uphold the spirit of the legislation that has gone through this parliament in the last decade of the High Court rulings that Indigenous people should have a real say in what is happening on their land», Senator Brown as reported in Senate 2000, Debates, No. 16, p19524

Negotiation based on consent and equality can transform what was a contradiction at the foundation of our nation between the conflicting claims of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to the jurisdiction of traditional lands, into an agreement as to the basis of our coexisting sovereignty.

The basis of my optimism that the recognition of native title could achieve no less than a transformation of the social, economic and political relationships Indigenous people have with non-Indigenous people was that, in native title the inherent rights of Indigenous people, as the original inhabitants of the land, were finally acknowledged.

The unique nature of Indigenous connection to the land provides the basis for economic enterprises such as wildlife harvesting, natural resource management, fishing, cultural tourism and art produced for sale.

Protection under the NTA is limited - recognition of culture is based on «frozen in time» view of Indigenous culture and societies; and provides for the recognition of only certain types of rights, eg no more than a right to control access to land.

For example, in Galiwin» ku, the reward offered to the community for agreeing to lease land in the Indigenous township on a 99 year basis will be a significant investment in housing.

It criticises Indigenous self - determination on the basis that economic and social development have not resulted for Indigenous communities from land rights.

A starting point for the development of community - based policies relating to mining on Indigenous land

This basis for land rights legislation recognises that Indigenous societies in Australia are governed by their own systems of law, including customary land tenure systems, and strives to create space for these within the Australian legal system.

[20] Thus framed, regional agreements are seen as an important tool for providing a stable and enduring basis for a dynamic and long term relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people over land.

Free, prior, and informed consent recognises Indigenous peoples inherent and prior rights to our lands and resources and respects our legitimate authority to require that non-Indigenous stakeholders enter into an equal and respectful relationship with us, based on the principle of informed consent.

inalienable title «locks up» land land should be sold for profit, leased on a long - term basis for rent, or used as security against loans for homes and businesses; that is, Indigenous land should be entered into the real property market.

Corporate Responsibility - Developing principles on Resource Development on Indigenous land: A Human Rights based approach