Rodolfo Stavenhagen Summary and Analysis by Ryan Bellino

NativesAboriginesIndians Who Are The Indigenous? Indigenous

Sami Norway Native Americans Inuit Hawaians Canada/USA Maori New Zealand Aborigines Australia Ainu Japan ‘small’ peoples of the North Russia

Land FarmersGatherers Nomadic Pastoralists Hunters

Colonial state Immigrant colonists Religious missions State-sponsored settlers Large plantations Livestock ranchers Transnational corporations Miners Lumber companies Who Took The Land

Economic Development & Modernization Cultural Identity

Religious conversion Deny their cultural identity Taught in national language with native language as a dialect Education

First Not the minority but a demographic majority Second Original historic rights that minorities do not Third Formal treaties with colonial states that should be upheld Human Rights

My Analysis

“If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies” Hobbes

“that the subordinated do have a voice. It needs to be heard because it can reveal value where none was previously acknowledged” (Kittay, 2011, p. 54). Kittay

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