Alaskan Neo-Liberalism Conservation, Development, and Native Land Rights

When the State of Emergency was declared in 1952, most Africans in Kenya were living on the land in tribal reserves known as Native Land Units. Land rights within the Land Units were governed by native law and custom, though the demand for individual titles was strong, particularly in the Kikuyu Land Unit. However, administrators were divided about the desirability of hastening the demise of traditional institutions and concentrated their efforts on promoting agricultural development by taking measures against soil erosion and encouraging farmers to consolidate their holdings. It was only when large-scale compulsory land consolidation schemes were initiated in the mid-fifties among the Kikuyu that serious consideration was given to the nature of the title which the owner of a consolidated holding would acquire. Many people saw customary law as an obstacle to agricultural development (after all, the customary law relating to the allocation and inheritance of land was largely responsible for the considerable fragmentation of holdings that had occurred) and recommended that it be replaced by a system based on the registration of individual titles.

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Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v McIntosh and the history of native land rights

Settler Colonial Studies ◽

10.1080/2201473x.2015.1124371 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 433-436

Author(s):

Mark Hickford

Keyword(s):

Land Rights ◽

Native Land ◽

History Of

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Native Land Rights in Australia

Business Ethics A European Review ◽

10.1111/1467-8608.00079 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 12-16

Author(s):

Craig A. Davison

Keyword(s):

Land Rights ◽

Native Land

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Transporting Concepts of ‘Native’ Land as Birthright between Fiji and Australia’s North

Social Sciences and Missions ◽

10.1163/18748945-03003001 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (3-4) ◽

pp. 325-345

Author(s):

Kirstie Close-Barry

Keyword(s):

Indigenous People ◽

Land Rights ◽

Land Ownership ◽

Northern Territory ◽

Native Land ◽

Colonial State ◽

The Pacific ◽

National Boundaries ◽

The 1960S ◽

Indigenous Land

This article focuses on the experiences at two Methodist communities in the Pacific and their assertions of sovereignty from the 1920s to the 1960s. It explores the connections between two nodes of the Methodist Mission – Fiji and Australia’s Northern Territory – through one missionary, Kolinio Saukuru. While there were moments of great political mobilisation at each site, efforts to assert Indigenous land ownership and autonomy were hampered by persistent racialized views of the ‘native’ amongst missionaries and the colonial state. This article engages with questions emerging from the histories of colonial missions, particularly whether missions aligned with colonial administrations on strategies of governance. However, it also points to the need to think beyond national boundaries when studying mission histories. An examination of the Methodist Overseas Mission using a transnational framework illuminates a network of Indigenous people who worked to protect what some missionaries and anthropologists considered an Indigenous ‘birthright’: the land. This study therefore expands on the existing historiography of colonial missions, of Indigenous labour, and of land rights activism in Fiji and Australia’s north.

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