obligated to it as it sets out how the existing rights standards apply to how the rights of indigenous people are protected and recognized in different nations. This declaration helps to reduce the level of discrimination which countries with different cultures treat the indigenous and also improve their situation globally. The declaration and other instrument are significant since the indigenous people are consulted prior to any decision on their property or even their territories so that they can be
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responsibility and its duty of care towards the Indigenous Australian people. Background Aboriginals Australians are technically the first people who lived in Australia. Australian Aboriginals were basically the hunters who used to eat the animals they caught and were also considered as gatherers of plants which could be eaten. Some of these groups then settled on the islands and are now called as Torres Strait Islander People. 1. Foundational Aspects of Indigenous Australian Cultures (the dreaming
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“Don’t trust white people because they mean us no good and don’t trust anyone darker than you because their hearts are as Black as their faces (And where did that leave me, the darkest one?)… And how can we expunge these messages from our consciousness without first recognizing what it was they were saying, and how destructive they were,” (Lorde 165). Since a very early age, children of any race, are taught what is considered to be “good” and what is considered to be “no good” or “bad.” Parents
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Executive Summary (art of war) Sun Tzu was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher whose teachings are based on the principles of the Taoist religion. He is the author of one of the most prominent pieces of literature during the era of the Warring States in which China entered around the first millennium B.C.E. In this work of art Sun Tzu takes a rational approach to the problem of conflict and dissects every aspect of it. He details how to overcome a conflict using specific
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The Nation of Canada would come to know many great leaders within the nineteenth and twentieth century. One of these people would be Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Laurier would be an arbiter to Canada's history. Serving as Prime Minister from 1896 to 1911; a well respected leader and a man of honor. A man, confident within his country stated the following on January 18, 1904 “Canada has been modest in its history, although its history, in my estimation, is only commencing. It is commencing in this century
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the most disenfranchised groups in the United States is the Native American people. This seems like it should be a contradictory statement considering that before Christopher Columbus’s arrival in 1492, Native Americans of various tribes lived and thrived in their homeland. However, that all changed when white conquistadors arrived. Columbus claimed an occupied land for Spain and then committed acts on the native people that equate to the modern day definition of genocide. Eventually, Columbus and
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Known for their vibrant culture, the Ancestral Pueblo or Anasazi People formed a society full of life in the Four Corners Region of the Southwest between 800 and 1300 A.D. The Anasazi were a strong, determined people. Settlements survived in the middle of the desert for hundreds of years despite being greatly distanced at times from resources such as water and timber. The inhabitants at Chaco Canyon were perhaps part of the most complex society; their mass organization accomplished many things architecturally
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was on the Koyukon Athabascan people. We focused on the Koyukon Athabascan geography and environment, way of subsistence, kinship, and the Koyukon Athabascan cosmology. The Koyukon Athabascan people have a deep and complex culture that lives around the Yukon river, Kantishna river, and Koyukuk river which is a combination of lowland flats, bogs, and if you go up river the terrain gets more mountainous. With this kind of environment the Koyukon Athabascan people live on the resources around them
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It is not fair, it is not fair that black people die and get beat for no reason. It is not fair that we get accused of things that the police and we know we were not guilty of. Some police officers will even look for a reason to put evidence against someone. And the thing is its not just black males its also women, young adults, and even children. These people that are giving be in murdered have families their parents children siblings a husband or a wife police are telling me is a intense problem
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Why People Hate Dove's 'Real Beauty Sketches' Video Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" campaign is supposed to be an uplifting message that shows women that they are more beautiful than they think they are. In the viral video, an FBI-trained sketch artist draws women first based on their own and then on strangers' descriptions. While many love the video, others found major flaws in the ad. A slew of articles have point out why the ad isn't entirely on-message, with headlines including "Beauty Above
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