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Pukhlein Recipe, Meghalaya Special Rice Jaggery Snack

2020

Author(s): Banerjee K, Banerjee K

Pukhlein is a traditional rice flour recipe that owes it's origin to Meghalaya and is known for its palatable flavors all around the country.

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What We Carry for Our Ancestors: Intergenerational Healing.

2022

Author(s): Thin S

This talk focused on the impacts of historical traumas and how the past directly impacts our present day conditions individually and collectively.

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The book specifically demonstrates the use of autobiographical ethnicity as a methodological approach, where the writer draws on lived experience and ethnic background towards creative and academic writing.

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Books
Old Ways for New Days: Indigenous Survival and Agency in Climate Changed Times

2022

Author(s): Nursey-Bray M, Palmer R, et al.

The book first introduces readers to Indigenous peoples and their struggles related to climate change, describing the impacts of climate change on their everyday lives and the adaptation strategies currently undertaken to address them.

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This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority.

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Indigenous Law and the Politics of Kincentricity and Orality

2023

Author(s): Kearney A, Bradley J, Dodd V, a-Marrngawi DN, a-Muluwamara MT, Dimanyurru GF, a-Karrakayny A

This Palgrave Pivot strives to recount and understand Indigenous Law, as set within a remote community in northern Australia. It pays close attention to the realpolitik and high-level political functioning of Indigenous Laws, which inspires a discussion of how this Law models the relational, influences governance and emplaces people in an ordered kincentric lifeworld.

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This book examines the successes and failures that have followed in the ten years since Morales’s election. While the Morales government has made many changes that have benefited Bolivia’s majority indigenous population, it has also consolidated power and reinforced extractivist development models.

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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America

2019

Author(s): Ødegaard CV, Andía JJR

Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the book  discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia.

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Video Message by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on World's Indigenous Peoples Day, 9 August 2022.

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The current study involved identification and preservation of Kuki indigenous agricultural knowledge with emphasis on the role of libraries. It is a quantitative study, aimed and designed to study the signification of Kuki indigenous knowledge and its contribution to the community. Research was conducted in order to try to answer the research questions and fulfil objectives set for the study