2005 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 5-9, Denver, Colorado
Indigenous Peoples: Identity, Management
and Self-Determination
Sponsorships: Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Description:
In the context of their colonized status, indigenous peoples are
confronted with nation-to-State negotiations on a range of issues
regarding land and resource management and utilization. How these
situations play out continue to frame indigenous-settler relations,
in which States generally try to maintain their authority, and the
indigenous peoples strive for the power to define and maintain their
own identities and practices. This session considers a variety of
case studies, past and present, to help elucidate the nature of
the identity/management/self-determination nexus as manifested in
different contexts and colonial situations.
Organizer: RDK Herman
Chair: Kenneth Madsen
Participants:
Brad Coombes
After comanagement – indigeneity and self-determination
in natural resource management at Whakaki, New Zealand
Melanie McCalmont
Inside the Circle: Native American Telecom and Federal Trust
Reform
Zoltan Grossman
Rich Tribes, Rich Jews: Comparing the New Anti-Indianism to
Historic Anti-Semitism
Elisabeth K. Butzer and Karl W. Butzer
Indigenous Voices from the Frontier of New Spain: What can the
Tlaxcalans of Bustamante tell us about Resistance?
Fenda A. Akiwumi
Challenges to Africa’s water development: The paradox
of “indigenous community participation.”
