Sentences with phrase «ancestral lands»

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

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.

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.

The homelands movement of the Northern Territory is an example of successful Aboriginal community development, governance and self - determination on Aboriginal ancestral lands with cultural and spiritual significance to the Aboriginal people who live there.

The Trudeau government's 1969 White Paper, which called for the removal of any special status for Aboriginal peoples, paired with increased oil and gas exploration in traditional ancestral lands by extractive industries, provided ample reason for Indigenous peoples to organize into formal policy organizations to protect their livelihoods, lifeways and traditional homelands.

«They've only been ancestral lands for at best 100 years before the pagans turn up, and it is most likely that any pagan temples were on old church sites.

The situation is already tense as outsiders invade ancestral lands with cattle and carry out illegal logging.

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

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.

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.

Ancestral Lands spotlights Native American homelands.

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.

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.

The Samburu would claim that this is there ancestral land and the Turkana would use the gun and advance their agenda of acquiring more grazing land (this they have succeeded to some extent); the Samburu have long accepted this because the present Turkana generation in Baragoi is actually have birth right here and in the spirit of the 2010 constitution also any Kenyan can live anywhere in Kenya.

[1] This appeal involves the claim of the Lax Kw» alaams First Nation and other First Nations listed in the Appendix to these reasons (herein collectively referred to as «Lax Kw» alaams»), whose ancestral lands stretch along the northwest coast of British Columbia between the estuaries of the Nass and lower Skeena Rivers, to the commercial harvesting and sale of «all species of fish» within their traditional waters.

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

The Western Australian Government continues to respect native title and Aboriginal heritage and cultural rights, and rights to access ancestral lands.

Canadian - born, Los Angeles - based Vishal Jugdeo is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship in support of his new body of work, which develops from 2012's Goods Carrier, filmed in the artist's ancestral land of origin, India, and debuted at the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. 2012; as well as A Shaky Picture Has No Weight (2013), filmed in Jugdeo's parents» homeland of Guyana, and debuted at Performa13.

«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.»

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 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 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.

She sang a prayer from Chief Dan George over us, welcoming us to her ancestral land.

The Jewish people, after a dramatic political recovery in the time of Herod the Great, were experiencing their second expulsion from their ancestral land.

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.

The natural love of the Judeans or Jews for their ancestral land was thus raised to a high pitch of spiritual fervor by their religious teachers or rabbis who accorded it a central role in the Jewish religion.

The Cherokee lived in North Carolin and Georgia because the Iroquois drove them off their ancestral land.

The pamphlets exhorted the cause of the Mapuche indigenous people, who are pushing for a return of ancestral lands and other rights.

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.

Dick Armey, the retired House majority leader, promoted the removal of all Palestinians from their ancestral land to an unpopulated desert.

The MBCI are the descendants of the Choctaw that refused to be removed from their ancestral lands and relocated to land in what is now Oklahoma.

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.

A documentary called Lake of Betrayal tells the story of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania, and how its construction forced the Seneca Indian people from their ancestral land.

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.

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

In turn these peoples are often staunch defenders of their ancestral lands.

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.