wayfinders circle governance report english - Flipbook - Page 22
Toward Yet
Stronger Leadership
and Clearer Direction
Wayfinders demonstrate ongoing advances and ways forward in their
governance systems, as well as evidence validating the efficacy of
traditional leadership in their respective communities and societies; yet
too many hindrances, limitations, and challenges to the Wayfinders’
pursuit and assertion of their self-determination remain.
There are many unresolved issues around legal acknowledgement or
recognition of traditional areas and territories by states and governments that have long been occupied by Indigenous peoples. News of
legal battles are distributed widely through various efforts from information dissemination and awareness-raising about Indigenous peoples’
legal rights at the local levels; to high level negotiations with governments to assert rights to land ownership and traditional practices of
resource management. This is the case with almost all the Wayfinders,
who have varying levels of success in their continued quest for rightful
control of the lands they inhabit.
GOVERNANCE REPORT
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