This thesis analyzes gendered impacts of landlessness on indigenous peoples in Uganda with a case study of Batwa in Southwestern Uganda. I further highlighted the causes of landlessness and challenges it creates for indigenous peoples in Uganda and highlighted the gaps between the protection and the implementation of land rights of indigenous peoples. It gives a general overview of Land Rights in ...

The present study is about health discourse in Chittagong Hill Tracts; this research shows how different health intervention programs are conducted in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh after the peace accord in 1997. This research also revealed how health becomes a development issue in Bangladesh especially in Chittagong Hill Tracts. Here, health discourse means how different agents, both government ...

Danish authorities introduced reindeer husbandry to Greenland in 1952 when three hundred domesticated reindeer where purchased from a reindeer pastoral district or siida in Kárášjohka and transported to Greenland by boat to the Nuuk fjord. By introducing semi-domesticated reindeer to Greenland, the Danish state intended to establish an abundant new industry and occupation for people, as well as ...

This research aims to question how the Kurdish people is affected by the assimilation policies starting from the 1923 until today. It aims to explain how the education system serves the assimilation policies and how and for what reasons the Kurdish language and culture are being destroyed. The thesis provides reasons why Kurdish language and literature do not develop. In order to explain these ...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from 2019 has impacted education systems of many countries around the world. Efforts to contain COVID-19 have led to the closure of schools in more than 100 countries worldwide. This situation has also left over one billion learners out of school. For marginalized communities such as indigenous people, the situation has been worse. This study investigated the ...

Nepal adopted ILO Convention No. 169 in 2007, and its principles have been applied in national legislation and policies to enhance the acknowledgment of indigenous peoples' rights in practice. The research highlights the changes in Nepal's acknowledgment and protection of indigenous peoples' rights after the country ratified of ILO 169. Thus, it will investigate the Nepalese government's adoption ...

This project is about how exposure to different cultural values can impact the indigeneity of women. It focuses of how the culture of the majority, which is mostly imposed on these indigenous women through education and tertiary institutions, impacts the choices they make, as compared to the expectations and obligations of own community. I am using the case study on one indigenous group located in ...

Wisconsin Act 31, also known as Act 31, was signed into law in 1991 and requires Wisconsin schools to teach Indigenous studies in their classrooms. Act 31 was passed in response to a turbulent time in Northern Wisconsin when Ojibwe, who were exercising their treaty rights to spearfish, were confronted with white Wisconsinites, who protested against those rights. This time period was dubbed The Treaty ...

Abstract This thesis examines the concept of indigenous climate justice in a Sámi political context. The green transition taking place in Europe and globally requires resources such as minerals and land. Research shows that these green transition projects place a burden on different indigenous groups around the world, and their voices and concerns are seldomly addressed by those making climate ...

Proclaiming an international Indigenous societal revolution is taking place, anthropologist and language revitalization researcher, Gerald Roche develops the concept of Indigenous efflorescence to identify and investigate sites of Indigenous language and cultural flourishing in spite of colonialism. Conversely, the South Saemie language has been framed as “severely endangered” and the community a ...