Addressing the Land Claims of Indigenous Peoples

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The attached monogram is published by the Program on Human Rights & Justice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is included here with permission.

Abstract: "Indigenous people have lived in the same locations for hundreds if not thousands of years. The national governments involved either refuse to recognize the land claims of indigenous people or are only willing to settle claims in ways unacceptable to them. However, unless these claims are resolved in such a way that First Peoples gain control sufficient, at the very least, to maintain their language and culture, they will disappear. In this paper, the authors explore 14 cases of indigenous land claims, concentrating on the strategies that these First Nations have pursued and the responses they have received from the dominant cultures that surround them. The authors' goal is to understand the preconditions for effectively resolving the land claims of indigenous peoples around the world."

The authors include Lawrence E. Susskind (primary), Isabelle Anguelovski (primary), Katherine Wallace, Alexis Schulman, Sumner Austin, Steven Lewis, Maria Reyes, J. Eric Kent, Andrea Glen, Artur Demchuck, Talia Berman-Kishony, Shunlin Chen, Shizuka Hashimoto, Jessica Tucker-Mohl, and Autumn Graham.