Indigenous Peoples Continue 100-year Fight Against Large-Scale …
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff) For more than a century, the Kankanaey and Ibaloy Peoples of Itogon, Benguet province in the Cordillera region of Northern Luzon in the Philippines have been waging a struggle against the injustices of large-scale corporate mining. As they continue to fight to reclaim their land, lifeways, …
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Reproductive control of Indigenous women continues around the …
The summit will involve three days of storytelling, ceremony and art, culminating in a public exhibit at the Whiskeyjack Art House on August 19, which may include photovoice, weaving, film, dance and other art. "Everything that we are doing together has a healing orientation," says Spitzer. "We will share stories to collectively …
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Mining in Zambia: Revitalization and the Challenges of Inclusive
Theory, Methods, and Historiography. Urban History. World History. Journalism. Language Teaching and Learning ... This chapter charts the history of the mining sector in Zambia from Independence to the current time, from the rise and decline of the state-owned conglomerate, ZCCM, to the eventual privatization of the mines at the very end of the ...
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Learning from Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Learning #1: Indigenous Quantitative Methods. A few months ago I set out to create a research brief of Indigenous Quantitative Methodologies. I wanted to start a survey of just some of the existing ways that Indigenous cultures around the world create knowledge and solve problems with data. ... One of the people I spoke to hit the nail on …
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Indigenous Peoples and Mining Encounters: Strategies and …
4 Indigenous Peoples and Mining Encounters: Strategies and Tactics includes income generated from traditional sources, access to common resources, food security, social …
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Precolonial Metallurgy and Mining across Africa | Oxford …
Archaeology. Because of its unique ability to study cultural behaviors relating to deep time periods, archaeology, the study of the past using material and nonmaterial remains, is strategically placed to study Africa's precolonial mining and metallurgical past. 13 Archaeology is however conditioned by the nature of the surviving evidence and …
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The History of Mining — A Look at the Evolution of Gold Mining
January 31, 2022. O3 Mining. The History of Mining — Archaeological evidence suggests that mining first occurred in prehistoric periods. The first mined material was flint, which humans broke into sharp-edged bits to use as scrapers, knives, and arrowheads due to its conchoidal breaking pattern. Early mine shafts uncovered in France and ...
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Ancient Education System of India
During that period, the gurus and their shishyas lived together helping each other in day-to-day life. The main objective was to have complete learning, leading a disciplined life and realising one's inner potential. Students lived away from their homes for years together till they achieved their goals.
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ANTHRO 653 Indigenous Research: Theories & Methods
Most of my time these days is spent teaching other Indigenous knowledge seekers (and my kids) how to accomplish this balancing act while still keeping both feet on the ground. ... Applying Indigenous Research Methods is an interdisciplinary showcase of the ways IRMs can enhance scholarship in fields including education, Indigenous studies ...
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Our struggles are your struggles: stories of Indigenous
Our struggles are your struggles: stories of Indigenous resistance and regeneration. Standing Rock was a pivotal moment in regards to Indigenous resistance — but it was just one in a long line of battles that Indigenous peoples have been fighting against the twin forces of colonialism and capitalism since first contact.
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Aboriginal message sticks and an ancient system of communication
The solution was found in 'message sticks', an ancient form of communication that has been used for tens of thousands of years, and is still in use today in some parts of Australia. Traditional message sticks were made and crafted from wood and were generally small and easy to carry (between 10 and 30 cm).
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Gold: History of Use, Mining, Prospecting, Assay & Production
A brief history of gold uses, prospecting, mining and production. Republished from a USGS general interest publication by Harold Kirkemo, William L. Newman, and Roger P. Ashley. Egyptian gold: Artisans of ancient civilizations used gold lavishly in decorating tombs and temples, and gold objects made more than 5,000 years ago have been found in ...
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The impact of mining on sustainable practices and the traditional
Mining has played a part in the economic development of developed countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia. However, the mining economic growth connection varies considerably from that claimed in the historical analogy reasoning. It is not evident that these countries' historical experience applies to modern developing nations …
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Minerals and Mining in South Africa | SpringerLink
Abstract. Mining in southern Africa has a long pre-colonial history. Haematite mining in Swaziland can be traced back more than 40,000 years, iron smelting dates from 400 AD or earlier, and copper from 900 AD. The most iconic evidence for pre-colonial mining are the gold artefacts from Mapungubwe dated between 1220 and 1300 AD.
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9.1.2: The History of Mining
People have practiced mining and quarrying since ancient times. The first mineral known to be mined was flint, a fine-grained variety of quartz used to make weapons. Early peoples mined other things, such as ochre, for use as pigment in art and religious ceremonies. Figure 9.3: Chalcolithic Age artifacts from a cave at Nahal Mishmar, near the ...
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Weaving Indigenous knowledge with scientific research: A …
Weaving Indigenous knowledge with scientific research: A balanced approach. Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, mythologies, place names and classification schemes, can span many ...
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Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?
By Guy Crosby. December 17, 2019. Clearly, the controlled use of fire to cook food was an extremely important element in the biological and social evolution of early humans, whether it started 400,000 or 2 million years ago. The lack of physical evidence suggests early humans did little to modify the control and use of fire for cooking for ...
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Mising Tribe of Assam: Ingenious Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation
The Mising Tribe – also sometimes referred to as the Mishing Tribe – is a major ethnic group in northeast India and the second largest tribe in Assam. They are the River People; the name "Mising" comes from mi (man) and asi (water), or "man of the water". "To be Mising is to be made and unmade by the river.". – Nimisha Thakur.
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Pre-colonial history of Southern Africa
Human Origins. South African scientists have been actively involved in the study of human origins since 1925 when Raymond Dart identified the Taung child as an infant halfway between apes and humans. Dart called the remains Australopithecus africanus, southern ape-man, and his work ultimately changed the focus of human evolution from Europe and ...
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How Humans Took Care of Their Teeth Through History
In 1857, H. N. Wadsworth, a Washington, D.C. dentist, received the first U.S. patent for a toothbrush, which he claimed did a better job of scrubbing between the teeth. Numerous other innovations ...
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Ancient Indian Knowledge Systems and their Relevance Today – …
Indian disciplinary formations include fields as diverse as philosophy, architecture, grammar, mathematics, astronomy, metrics, sociology (dharmasastra), economy and polity (arthaśāstra), ethics (nitishastra), geography, logic, military science, weaponry, agriculture, mining, trade and commerce, metallurgy, mining, shipbuilding, …
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Indigenous peoples' relationships to large-scale mining in post
1. Introduction. Large-scale mining projects inevitably have widespread impacts on local societies and ecologies. Because of their close relationships to the land, water, and resources therein, and their marginalized social and economic positions, Indigenous peoples living in current or former settler colonies are particularly vulnerable …
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(PDF) Indigenous Gold Mining in Southern Africa: A …
Abstract. The history of gold mining and gold trade in southern Africa goes back nearly 1000 years. Given the number of early gold mines and the records of lively trade on the east coast, the ...
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Indigenous peoples' relationships to large-scale mining in post
Indigenous-led engagements with mining. This section explores ways that members of local, Indigenous communities engage with mining companies in former or current settler colonies. This situation, in each case, leads to often-complex interactions …
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Challenges and Opportunities for Indigenous Peoples' Sustainability
Indigenous peoples are stewards of the world's biodiversity and cultural diversity. Although they account for only around 5 percent of the world's population, they effectively manage an ...
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Venezuela's Indigenous communities shoulder responsibility of
At the same time, artisanal mining – using rudimentary methods to extract and process minerals and metals – and large-scale mining operations continued to develop outside the designated zone ...
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Sustainable Development of Arctic Oil and Gas: Indigenous …
As noted earlier, there are some debates on the right methods to address the lack of control in achieving fairness and equity: the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, identified a 'preferred' model, based on greater levels of indigenous control over the nature of the development and the sharing of ...
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Anthropogenic impacts of mining on indigenous peoples in …
Indigenous Peoples all over the world have been impacted by mining activities and changing energy landscapes. The colonisation of Indigenous lands shows …
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Lagos: From Trading in Slaves to Equal Opportunities
Right from the pre-colonial, colonial to this post-independence period, Lagos has proved to go beyond being a melting pot of different nationalities. It is a pressure cooker of divers people coming to avail themselves of the opportunities the city offers. Apart from the other sphers of life where this reflects, it also shows in the level of politics and …
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Home | The Australian Curriculum (Version 8.4)
Connecting the elaboration and content description. This elaboration allows students the opportunity to explore a range of separation techniques developed and utilised by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia for a variety of purposes. Students have opportunities to investigate the scientific principles underlying these ...
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