indigenous-rights

Groups say new directive fails to respect Native sovereignty amid complicated history of Indigenous child removals One morning early last July, Micha Bitsinnie arrived at work to an onslaught of messages from confused families. New Mexico’s governor Michelle Lujan Grisham had just issued a directive mandating the state’s child welfare department seek custody of all newborns who had been exposed t…

Deepanshu Rawat, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun. Prof (Dr.) Anil Dixit, Professor, Law College Dehradun, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun. ABSTRACT Tourism has proved to be an important source of economic development towards India especially ecologically sensitive areas with unique cultures of people residing in these areas. Nevertheless, such growth in the tourism industr…

Niranjan Baghwar, Jharkhand Rai University Ankita Toppo, Jharkhand Rai University ABSTRACT Jharkhand is home to one of India's largest tribal populations, yet tribal communities continue to lose their land at an alarming rate, not because the law fails to protect them, but because the institutions meant to enforce that law have collapsed under the weight of systemic dysfunction. This article exam…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 21-33 |  PDF Robin P. Love, Billie-Jo Hardy, Courtney Heffernan, Amber Heyd, Melissa Cardinal-Grant, Lori Sparling, Bonnie Healy, Janet Smylie, and Richard Long Abstract Indigenous rights to self-determination…