Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Revised and Expanded Edition is a fact-based educational and historical examination of the enduring connections among Indigenous identity, nationality, birthrights, land, education, culture, and collective memory.
This expanded edition explores international standards and documented United States history, including forced removal, displacement, the Dawes Act, the Homestead Act, Reconstruction-era land promises, inheritance, heirs’ property, and the methods through which families and communities lost control of their homes and land.
Readers will also examine the importance of educating our own, preserving cultural knowledge, protecting historical records, and understanding the differences among nationality, citizenship, tribal citizenship, ancestry, government recognition, and land ownership.
This book includes:
• An examination of Indigenous identity and self-identification
• Nationality, citizenship, birthrights, and inherited responsibilities
• The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Land, territory, natural resources, and ownership
• Forced removal, allotment, and displacement
• The Dawes Act and the Homestead Act
• Reconstruction and the promise of forty acres
• Education, language, culture, and sacred knowledge
• Historical timelines, vocabulary, research guidance, and sources
• A summary of all 46 articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Written for readers seeking research before opinion, this revised edition encourages disciplined inquiry, historical accountability, cultural preservation, and a clearer understanding of the relationship among people, land, identity, and inherited responsibility.
This publication is an educational and historical work.
Written by Prime Minister NGSKS: Durriyyah Bey—educator, researcher, publisher, curriculum developer, and host of Real MOORS Talk.