Vol. 24 No. 2 (2025)

Published August 18, 2025
Volume 24, Number 2

Curating a journal of global Indigenous voices is a journey filled with surprises and unexpected gifts from unseen places. The contributions for the 2025 Winter Issue form a cohesive journal issue, weaving together common themes of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and activist scholars participating in and reflecting on efforts to maintain sovereignty over land and natural resources.

In this issue, contributors responded to our general call for papers, exploring topics within the broader field of Indigenous human ecology. These topics include access to natural resources, international legal mechanisms, the connection to land, and the roles of resilience, activism, and the arts in preserving Indigenous territories and sustaining traditional ways of life

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Biodiversity Wars: International Relations and the Fourth World
Dr. Rudolph C. Rÿser (Author); Yesenia Cortés (Translator)
1-23
This is the first part of Chapter 2 of Rudolph Rÿser’s book, Biodiversity Wars: Coexistence or Biocultural Collapse in the 21st Century, which he was writing at the time of his passing. This ... more
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Indigenous Etsako Names Among Auchi People: The Influence of Islam on Their Current Naming Practices
Mohammed Enaikele, Ph.D., Suleiman Momoh (Author)
24-36
The name or names that an individual bears is an important aspect of his or her social identity. Among the Etsako people of Auchi, Edo state, Nigeria, their indigenous names are not just couched ... more
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Full Circle: Identity, Soviet Nationalities Policy, and Central Asia
Joseph E. Fallon (Author)
37-52
How did Soviet nationalism impact the diverse ethnic groups of Central Asia? This paper interrogates Soviet “modernization” policy toward different identity groups in modern Kazakhstan, ... more
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Land Grabbing: A Colonial Tool to Marginalize an Indigenous Rural Santal Community in Bangladesh
Mrinal Debnath, EdD (Author)
53-76
Employing a descriptive qualitative case study methodology, this article postulates that land grabbing is a man-made situation of coercion and oppression for the indigenous Santals in Bangladesh. ... more
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Pashtun Indigenous Knowledge and Resilience: Mitigating Climate Change in Northern Pakistan
Zafar Khan, Ph.D. (Author)
77-90
Indigenous knowledge and resilience are embedded in the prevailing culture of traditional societies. This study aims to investigate the Pashtun culturally embedded indigenous knowledge and ... more
Re-territorializing Climate Governance: The REDD+ Initiatives in the DR Congo
Marine Gauthier, MS (Author)
91-109
The Congo has long been a site of contestation for global environmental governance strategies, with Indigenous Batwa, Bambuti, and Baaka groups at the center of transnational climate discourse. ... more
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Siekopai Human Ecology Achieves Land Rights Victory
Laura Corradi, MA (Author); Yesenia Cortés (Translator)
110-145
On November 24, 2023, the Siekopai indigenous population residing in the Ecuadorian Amazon won a claim for the titling of their lands to their Nation. Ecuador recognized indigenous land ownership ... more
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Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Literature Review
Robert M. Hansell (Author)
147-184
Indigenous peoples have practiced food systems intertwined with the plants, animals, lands, and waters around them for thousands of years. These connections have frequently been severed by ... more
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Aillaquillen: The Island of Nine Moons. Cosmovision and Animism in Performance
Peter Petkovsek, MFA (Author)
189-202
This essay examines the narrative of the co-created community theatre show Aillaquillen: The Island of Nine Moons, presented at the Liquen Cultural Centre in the town of Villarrica, Chile, in ... more
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Book Review: Indigenous Cultural Property and International Law: Restitution, Rights and Wrongs by Shea Elizabeth Esterling
Martha L. Schmidt, LL.M. (Author)
203-208
This review of Elizabeth Esterling’s monograph Indigenous Cultural Property and International Law: Restitution, Rights and Wrongs, emphasizes the complexities of cultural property restitution ... more
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