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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indigenous Peoples And The Law by Edited by Denise Ferreira Da Silva , Edited by Mark Harris
Despite the fact that the appropriation of land and resources of the so-called New World necessarily involved the dispossession and exploitation (and, sometimes, genocide) of the original inhabitants of colonized nations, it was not until the late twentieth century that Indigenous Peoples attained any meaningful degree of legal recognition in both national and international spheres. Until then Indigenous Peoples (also known as 'First Nations' and 'First Peoples') were routinely denied any form of juridical identity._x000D_
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Research in and around Indigenous Peoples and the Law is now very wide-ranging and flourishes as never before.show more