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    the abolishment of serfdom. Nonetheless the indigenous peoples were not granted any rights politically or humanly. The right to vote was an afterthought to the right to be protected under the law or to own property. Until the 1950s only people of Spanish descent were allowed in the plaza in front of the Presidential Palace much less in the halls of government buildings. Beginning with the “National Revolution” in 1952, indigenous peoples in Bolivia were slowly granted rights and theoretical equality

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    cultures, and used for the European benefits. The indigenous life was not one of joy, but of sadness, and torture. In the 1500’s, the Beothuk peoples encountered Europeans for the first time, when they first came to fish cod, but they didn’t establish a trading partnership. It wasn’t until the early 1800’s when the Europeans took action and captured Beothuk peoples, Shawnadithit, her mother, and her sister, and took them back to Europe. Shawnadithit’s mother and sister died in Europe from European diseases

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    BA (Hons) Tourism Marketing Year 3 1.0 AN INTRODUCTION According to the United Nations definition of indigenous people, they are “descendants of those who inhabited a country or a geographical region at the time when people of different cultures or ethnic origins arrived” (United Nations, 2011a). It is estimated that there are about 370 million indigenous people around the globe in over 70 different countries. They keep their own political, social, economic and cultural qualities and also their

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    The City of Boroondara acknowledges the people of the Kulin Nation as Traditional Owners of the land of Boroondara. Today, two community organisations represent the interests of Indigenous people in Boroondara and the Eastern Metropolitan Region. They are the Wurundjeri Land Tribe and Compensation Cultural Heritage Council Inc. (Wurundjeri Council) and the Inner East Local Indigenous Network (LIN). The Wurundjeri people are recognised as the Traditional Owners of land in the northern area of Boroondara

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    Aboriginal peoples in Canada generally represents people who are the Indigenous habitants of Canada constituting of First Nations, Inuit and Metis (Etowa, Jesty, & Vukic, 2011). The First Nations people are referred to as Indians (status or non-status), the Inuit people traditionally live in northern regions including the Arctic and Subarctic areas and previously referred to as Eskimo while the Metis are Aboriginal people with both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestors as a result of intermarriage

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    Indigenous People In Canada

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    define indigenous people. No philosopher has invented a holistic definition of these people of the world. However, they are those people too impoverished in all societies worldwide, reorganized by their respective societies as indigenous natives, are identified with the pre and post colonial continuity, having links with historical kingdoms and live around natural resources with a peculiar political, economic and social set up. Over seventy nations of this world habit indigenous people estimated to be

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    Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples formally recognizes the right to give or withhold consent for industrial projects on traditional lands. The three communities have declared halts on industrial activity occurring without their consent, but the Province has refused to respect them and continues to issue industrial permits for logging and mining projects that the communities assert are damaging to the health, culture, and future of their people. They demanded that the UN address the

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    The Indigenous Peoples of Canada as a community were violated in numerous ways including colonization. The prolonged transgression of the Indigenous Peoples has left them in arguably the worst environmental, educational, social and economic state in the Nation decades after initial contact (Canadian Population Health Initiative, 2004). As a direct result traditions pertaining to all aspects of Indigenous life were affected, specifically traditional means of health. In an attempt to figuratively

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    We live in a society where white people have the upper hand in almost every circumstance. It is hard for most if not all white people to understand and comprehend this because “privilege is hard to see for those who were born with access to power and resources” (Kendall 1). White people aren’t judged by the color of their skin or certain facial features they possess. Because of their looks, people of color, specifically black people get shot in the back for walking down the street or just simply

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    president, I will bring it back, bigger and better than ever.” I agree with him. America is losing what all the great people did back in history. We are letting a lot of foreigners in our country. Over half of the American population are foreign people. I’m not saying kick all of them out--neither is Donald Trump--all I am saying is stop letting so many in. If there are more foreign people than Americans is this even America? American culture is extremely diverse because it has changed and developed

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