How Political Engagement Helps Indigenous Communities in their Fight for Rights
How does political engagement help indigenous communities in fighting for their rights? Indigenous communities have faced immense levels of oppression and discrimination throughout history. A growing global trend shows that more communities are fighting back and gaining their rights through politica...
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ftunivalbany:oai:scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu:honorscollege_pos-1034 2023-05-15T16:55:14+02:00 How Political Engagement Helps Indigenous Communities in their Fight for Rights Duguid, Danielle 2020-05-01T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/honorscollege_pos/34 https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=honorscollege_pos unknown Scholars Archive https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/honorscollege_pos/34 https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=honorscollege_pos Political Science political engagement indigenous rights resistance non-violent American Politics Political Science text 2020 ftunivalbany 2021-09-12T17:23:40Z How does political engagement help indigenous communities in fighting for their rights? Indigenous communities have faced immense levels of oppression and discrimination throughout history. A growing global trend shows that more communities are fighting back and gaining their rights through political means. This paper looks at the multiple ways communities have mobilized, focusing specifically on non-violent, political methods of resistance. This is done by examining politically active indigenous populations from North, Central, and South America and the states that they reside in. Even though the Inuit, Mayan, and Quechua communities have faced similar discrimination, have the same goals, and reside in democratic countries; they have chosen different methods of political engagement. Through conducting a Most Similar Systems study, we hypothesize that the percent of population that an indigenous group makes up in a state is a determining factor in what political methods that group utilizes. By understanding the reasons behind this, it will become easier to study how political engagement helps indigenous communities in gaining a voice. Some methods could be more effective for different communities based on their population make up. Nevertheless, this study can provide insight into the functioning of indigenous political resistance systems and assist in putting together the larger picture of effective activism for these communities. Text inuit University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY): Scholars Archive Mayan ENVELOPE(112.600,112.600,72.633,72.633) |
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How does political engagement help indigenous communities in fighting for their rights? Indigenous communities have faced immense levels of oppression and discrimination throughout history. A growing global trend shows that more communities are fighting back and gaining their rights through political means. This paper looks at the multiple ways communities have mobilized, focusing specifically on non-violent, political methods of resistance. This is done by examining politically active indigenous populations from North, Central, and South America and the states that they reside in. Even though the Inuit, Mayan, and Quechua communities have faced similar discrimination, have the same goals, and reside in democratic countries; they have chosen different methods of political engagement. Through conducting a Most Similar Systems study, we hypothesize that the percent of population that an indigenous group makes up in a state is a determining factor in what political methods that group utilizes. By understanding the reasons behind this, it will become easier to study how political engagement helps indigenous communities in gaining a voice. Some methods could be more effective for different communities based on their population make up. Nevertheless, this study can provide insight into the functioning of indigenous political resistance systems and assist in putting together the larger picture of effective activism for these communities. |
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