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    Urbanization for indigenous people cannot be seen as emancipatory‚ but a display of polarization and confrontation. It can be argued that moving to urbanized areas is freeing from colonization and any negative associated representations‚ however‚ new issues arise from the move. These issues could be poor living conditions‚ unstable jobs‚ no health care and etc… In the US‚ the First Nations were relocated to urban spaces for work during 1950s. With limited government funding many lived in slum areas

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    Equality for indigenous peoples in the Australian Constitution This article is based around equality for indigenous people in the Australian constitution. It explains the ‘bleakness’ of the Australian constitution (Charlesworth‚ H‚ Durbach‚ A pg. 68‚ 2011)‚ Australia’s international obligations‚ constitutional models and much more. This article clearly is writing from the side of bringing equality to the indigenous people‚ hence the title. Specifically‚ it identifies some key aspects that are incorrect

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    it does not express the uniqueness of a person’s personality. All people‚ throughout their life‚ form an understanding of themselves. All this identity one develops for themselves is grouped under the name of the person. Just like every person has a discrete proper name‚ indigenous people also prefer to be called by their proper name. For example‚ one cannot refer to all indigenous people as Indians or redskins. Every indigenous person associates themselves with a different group that call themselves

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    The Ancient Egyptian beliefs and customs have stood the test of time. The Ancient Egyptians were superior in their knowledge to any other nation. In the following paragraphs I will demonstrate there beliefs and customs. Egypt is widely known for their Pyramids‚ many of these gigantic landmarks have lasted for many centuries. Pyramids were built for Pharaohs to guide them into the ‘Afterlife’. Pyramids took 20 to 25 years to construct. Each piece of rock mined from the quarry had to be carefully

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    TEDURAY ECONOMY The economy of Teduray is agriculturally based. Farming is their basic means of livelihood. Their other subsistence are fishing‚ hunting and mini handicraft production. Most of the farmers still practice swidden cultivation or slash-and-burn (kaingin) in farming. Thus‚ most of them get marginal production which is not enough to cater the wants and needs of their families. Planting star is one of the traditions still practiced by the Tedurays. This is observed during the months

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    Indigenous people had and still have lasting effects on how imperialism affected them. It took a part of their history‚ heritage and a part of who there were when the europeans came to Canada. The main ideas that I’m going to talk about are; assimilation on the indigenous people and what strategies the europeans used to assimilate them‚ eurocentrism and how it affected their lives than and how it’s still affecting them in the present day and the last idea I am going to focus on is how imperialism

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    (known in Guatemala as ladino)‚ people of mixed European and indigenous ancestry. Ladino culture is dominant in urban areas‚ and is heavily influenced by European and North American trends. Unlike many Latin American countries‚ Guatemala still has a large indigenous population‚ the Maya‚ which has retained a distinct identity. Deeply rooted in the rural highlands of Guatemala‚ many indigenous people speak a Mayan language‚ follow traditional religious and village customs‚ and continue a rich tradition

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    The indigenous people were accustomed to sicknesses of their own but none like the ones brought by the Spanish. With the coming of these diseases many of the indigenous people died from small pox and chicken pox. Realizing this effect the diseases had on them many might have committed suicide and led up to other ways in which the indigenous people died out. After Columbus had left for the first time his men became lazy and put the indigenous people to work and as a result these people attacked

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    The impact of criminal law on the justice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People The criminal justice system is made up of practices and institutions of governments‚ which focus on upholding social control‚ deterring and mitigating crime‚ or sanctioning those who violate law with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts (Reviews 2013). Criminal law‚ as an institution of justice‚ focuses on the body of law that relates to crime (Reviews 2013). The purpose of this paper is to discuss

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    Indigenous storytelling can be understood as a way of both resisting and amending the dominant colonial histories that inform the subaltern position of Indigenous people within Canada‚ alongside a means of reclaiming identity and sovereignty within a globalized neoliberal political economy. These practices are narratives of resistance‚ which symbolize the cultural‚ political and intellectual struggles of the Indigenous people in Canada‚ subsequently redefining their position within society. By examining

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