Back-to-the-land movement

The Mau Mau rebel group, who was politically controlled by the Kikuyu rebel group, had a rebellion or a movement against the British army because the British were coming to take their land. The British colony began to settle on the Kenyan land and they tried forcing the natives to become laborers. The natives did not accept this and instead began to fight for their land. After a bit of time, the Mau Mau rebels were defeated by the British Colonies. In 1954, the Mau Mau rebels sent a letter to the

of dispossession on Aboriginal spiritualties concerning separation from the land, the stolen generation and separation from kinship group is discussed. Departure from the land started with the European settlement. It removed the sense of belonging and sense of spiritual identity. One of the first forms of dispossession even date back to when the first fleet arrived in 1778. The removal of Aboriginal people from their land had a detrimental effect on their spirituality

peaceful, but the overall experiences included many groups such as the Native Americans fighting for equality in the Civil Rights Movements.The Native Americans, Latinos, African Americans, and Asian Americans had to participate in the Civil Rights Movements in order to prevent their cultures from being taken away. Equal pay, equal education, and different types of natural born rights are still being addressed today, and overtime advocacy groups have been working to achieve equal rights.“We are confronted

after landing in Plymouth, the land was divided into private lots and distributed to male heads of households, not just for use, but for ownership in the sense a 21st century Vermonter would understand. From this brief survey of global perspectives of land use, from the North American Arctic to southern India, it is apparent that human societies conceptualize property rights in a diversity of ways. These examples provide evidence that humans are fully capable of living well and sustainably under

the settlers are the provokers are the corner is the land of North America. In the beginning the settlers came to North America uninvited and set up their new lives here, turned a blind eye to whether or not the Native Americans agreed to them settling there. Once they had their land set up, they then “flexed their settler muscles” and showed the Native Americans that it was their land now and started forcefully removing the natives from their land. What was the settler’s motivation? What could one

Zapatista Movement. The movement was recognized all over the world in a matter of a day January 1st of 1994, the indigenous farmers of southern Mexico took arms and declared autonomy from the Mexican State. This radical uprising was in response to the globalization and free trade agreement, more in particular The North American Free Trade Agreement that was in effect on January 1st of 1994 as was the movement. The Zapatista Movement response to the Free Trade Agreement was the people wanted land, liberty

The African-American Civil Rights Movement was started in 1955, and was lead by many great African Americans who will never be forgotten in history. Many Americans who were born in the U.S. were not 100% American but had different ethnic background which meant many of these Americans had different skin colors, different nationality and because of this they were outcasts in the U.S. Many of these ethnic groups were not outcast just because of their background many were also segregated because of their

As urban gardening and agriculture becomes the next trendy social movement, the films The Garden and Occupy the Farm reveals a hidden history that plagues many urban farms across the country. While urban farms bring together communities and unites them to fight a common enemy, urban landowners, these landowners often have the money and power to remove these community groups as an obstacle to their development goals. Some communities are able to fight these greedy landowners; others are not. Both

The Crusades started off as a movement to fight off the infidels and take back the Holy Land of Jerusalem. During the start of these movements it seemed to be simple to recruit individuals who were willing to take the task of traveling away from home into lands they have never even thought about traveling too. Of course these movement had their ups and downs throughout the years, but overall the Crusades could be filled with willing men ready to fight against the infidels. One of the questions that

important to the history of American Immigration and is important to the histories of the home land in which the immigrants returned to. In his book, Wyman explores some key ideas such as the reason immigrants decided to voyage to a new land, across the ocean, to what was known as the “land of milk and honey” only to return to their small, and a lot of the time rural village. He also discusses American labor movement and what impact that had on