Sentences with phrase «ancestral lands for»

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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.

Kosovo is the symbolic heartland of Serbia, and Serbs are not willing to surrender lands that have been their ancestral homes for many centuries.

Still, the old patriarchal institutions were not completely unsuited to land tenure, and through these early centuries the idea of family possession took such firm hold as to be written into the laws and to provide the background for the colorful incident of Jezebel's theft of Naboth's ancestral property.

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.

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.

The verse was written 300 years after Solomon's death, during the reign of his descendant, Josiah, a man with a nation - building agenda and plenty of motivation to make ancestral claims for monumental achievements and land.

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.

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.

There they will regroup, and Charles will investigate reclaiming ancestral family land in China, land that he believes could be another start to greatness for him, the life that he, by right, should have had if the Japanese had not invaded China, if Communism had not spread, and if a number of other things had not happened so long ago.

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

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.

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

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

«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.»

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.

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.

What exactly «aboriginal title» means was also defined in the Supreme Court's decision: control of ancestral lands and the right to use them for economic purposes while ensuring the lands are maintained for future generations.

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.

International research shows that dividing indigenous land into small parcels leads to extensive administrative costs, limited economic benefits for indigenous peoples and the loss of ancestral lands.

Indigenous rights to their lands and territories have been a concern of international law from its origins in the 16th century expansion of Europe into the New World.24 Today, international law provides strong support for Indigenous peoples» rights to own, control and enjoy their ancestral lands.25 This recognition of the central place of land for Indigenous peoples encompasses in particular the communal nature of such title, and the central significance of spiritual connection to their country.

The [Native Title Act] sets up a real conflict of duty for many of our clients; the duty of prosecuting a claim to ensure that substantive rights and interests are recognised while simultaneously discharging their moral duty to their claim group to exercise procedural rights to negotiate fair compensation for mining on their ancestral lands.

It is difficult for remote Indigenous peoples to obtain teaching qualifications because of the lack of training facilities in remote areas and the fact that potential trainee teachers must leave family and ancestral lands to access formal education.