Sentences with phrase «lummi ancestral lands»

The demonstrators had gathered in front of the US Embassy to protest the presence of the US and the military in their ancestral lands, according to Rappler.

Even though the locals don't live on the Kauai land, they have a claim to it thanks to the Hawaiian notion of «kuleana» — a custom, reflected in law, recognizing traditional rights to ancestral land even in the absence of deeds or formal property records.

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.

Evangelicals and Pentecostals, indigenous and mestizos, have joined together to improve their social and economic situation, and to provide legal defense for people evicted from their ancestral lands because of their faith.

Declaring that it would restore India to its long - lost international eminence, the BJP also acquired what Nussbaum calls «a powerful and wealthy US arm»: a generation of rich Indians who while living abroad seek to affirm their identities through the achievements of their ancestral land.

First, there is in America an absence of territorial primogeniture, except for that of the Indians, and their chances of regaining control of their ancestral lands are quite limited; then, too, many Indians are leaving the reservations for the big cities.

With respect for the natural habitat and Pechanga heritage, design and construction of the top - ranked Journey at Pechanga golf course on nearly 300 acres / 121 hectares of unique, ancestral land, preserved most native oak trees; those removed were moved and transplanted at considerable expense.

The shareholders of this Māori owned business all descend from the original four Māori tribes from the top of the South Island and their primary focus is the management and sustainable use of ancestral lands always guided by a set of traditional Māori values which are as relevant today as they were in the past.

Clearly preferring ranching — a good alternative, to be sure — it pilloried governors amenable to grazing reserves, designed to stem clashes between farmers and herdsmen; and dismissed them as Judases eager to trade off «ancestral lands».

Another protester, Mr. Oaku George, vowed that residents would resist any attempt to cede their ancestral land to herdsmen.

Spokesman for the group, Dr Benjamin Agbede, said they decided to cry out because there appeared to be an orchestrated plot to force them out of their ancestral land.

Conservation policies had restricted access to ancestral lands, reducing the settlement to an island in a sea of game reserves.

«It's our ancestral land,» said Eliad Gisele Alves, a beaming young woman in a blue velvet jacket.

By sequencing the genome of the extensively studied moss Physcomitrella patens and comparing it to the sequenced genomes of rice, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, and single - cell algae, an international team has been able to look at what the ancestral land - plant genome looked like.

Now, our Mongolia team is once again assisting the communities of Tost in their fight to better protect their ancestral lands.

They are calling on the world to keep oil under ground in their ancestral lands.

The story of Ella, a fourteen year old girl and her journey to fulfill her dying Uncle's wish: to kayak to the remote island of Klemtu and testify to protect their ancestral land from a oil pipeline.

It involves him in joining a party of dwarves as the team's «burglar» on a mission to regain their ancestral lands and wealth from Smaug, the dragon guarding them beneath the Lonely Mountain.

At the request of the famous physicist and owner of the manor Allister Mac Farley, private investigator Alan P. Cameron leaves his Chicago office for the mists of his ancestral land.

He must escort one of his old enemies, a dying Cheyenne chief named Yellow Hawk, to his ancestral lands up north.

With the help of an orc runt named Garona (Paula Patton), they band together to try to repel the invading forces from their ancestral lands.

Hostiles (R for profanity and graphic violence) Panoramic Western, set in 1892, about a veteran cavalry Captain (Christian Bale) who reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) from a fort in New Mexico back to his tribe's ancestral lands in Montana.

Hostiles (R for profanity and graphic violence) Panoramic Western, set in 1892, about a veteran calvalry Captain (Christian Bale) who reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) from a fort in New Mexico back to his tribe's ancestral lands in Montana.

The book, which was just released, is THE SPOON FROM MINKOWITZ: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Lands.

I don't think Pinot Noir achieves this personality anywhere else in the world, here on the edge of its ancient ancestral lands and in the hands of people who have all the time in the world, and the help of angels, to make it.

The long - standing town site of Port Alberni arranged at the base of beautiful mountains aside sheltered deep water marinas greets travelers to the ancestral lands of the Nuu - chah - nulth translated as «all along the mountains and sea».

As co-chair of the CINMS Chumash Community Working Group and the independent Chumash Community Coalition, she works to bring the intertribal Chumash community together to discuss upcoming projects, issues, and events happening within Chumash ancestral lands and waters.

Rauli and Oak wood is brought from Mapuche people's ancestral lands and used for the construction.

In Undead Horde the player assumes the role of a necromancer on a quest to eradicate the living from the ancestral lands of the undead.

X-O Manowar # 19 Written by: Robert Venditti Art by: Cary Nord Aric of Dacia has fought to reclaim the ancestral lands of the Visigoths — and he has bled for it.

Dismayed by the fact that Di Meo had never visited his ancestral lands, Leon Golub organized a group of collectors to pitch in and send him to Italy in 1961 — 63.

The child of Somali parents, Osman returned to his ancestral lands in search for an emotional connection.

T'uy «t «tanat - Cease Wyss is Skwxwu7mesh / Sto: Lo / Hawaiian / Swiss and lives and works in her ancestral lands and waters.

Key notions involve a search for one's ancestral lands and an attempt to reconnect with history and tradition.

In Media Res concentrates on the body of Parlá's work that stems from his experiences of living and traveling in various countries: his time in Puerto Rico, his childhood in South Florida in the 1980s, extended journeys throughout the southern United States and Central America in the 1990s and most recent travels throughout Europe, Asia and his ancestral land of Cuba.

6 — Speaking of first nations peoples, you need to deal with the fact that their ancestral lands have been wildly damaged by this incredibly primitive and inefficient tarsands mining.

Sprawl is spreading over ancestral lands of native peoples, civil war sites and others important to African American history.

«The small contribution we're trying to make is to nationalize this so it's not just an issue for those whose back yards it is going through or for indigenous people whose ancestral lands are being ripped apart.»

Mindoro's Mangyan indigenous communities would also be heavily impacted by the mine, as the proposed mining area is within their ancestral land.

Brazil's indigenous Paiter Surui people are desperate for help: armed illegal loggers, gold and diamond miners are invading their ancestral land, felling trees, poisoning rivers and threatening the forest dwellers at gunpoint.

Vanessa Gray, who is from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation near Sarnia, Ontario, which is surrounded by 40 percent of Canada's chemical industry, talked about the health problems and spiritual pain the chemical plants located on her people's ancestral land were causing for her friends and relatives.

But Chief Almir enlisted an impressive array of supporters to help him stand up to loggers and preserve his ancestral land, its vast carbon stocks, his people's way of life, and many species of flora and fauna — all factors that led to dual validation.

The campaign's success saved Aboriginal ancestral lands, the world's largest humpback whale nursery and, on the shoreline, the world's largest dinosaur footprints.

The Corps ruled the project would impact the treaty - protected fishing rights and ancestral lands of Lummi Nation.

A 2005 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize award, Baldenegro was a second - generation environmental activist of the indigenous Tarahumara people, whose ancestral lands reside in the western Sierra Madre mountain range.

If all are built, more than 30,000 people will be relocated away from their ancestral lands.

Maasai herding communities are being pushed off their ancestral land by the Tanzanian government and safari companies in favor of more lucrative tourism and hunting, according to a new report by the Oakland Institute, a California - based think tank.

In it, the tribes ceded title to a portion of their ancestral lands in exchange for reservations, payments and — most importantly — a commitment that they'd be able to fish, hunt and gather at all of their «usual and accustomed» places in perpetuity.

One of them, at Cherry Point, would sit atop Lummi ancestral lands known as Xwe «chi'eXen.

So, we said okay and worked with them to understand what they specifically wanted - which was to have the Cuyapo's ancestral land legally demarcated as being indigenous land and basically not to be intruded on or exploited.