Settling Indigenous Rights and Building a Social Contract in the circum-Caribbean territories of Belize, Guyana and Suriname
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16 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.5502
- isbn: 9782367812915
- eisbn: 9782367813639
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Janette Bulkan, « Settling Indigenous Rights and Building a Social Contract in the circum-Caribbean territories of Belize, Guyana and Suriname », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.5502
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Belize, Guyana and Suriname are home to the largest surviving populations of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ITPs) in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean territories. ITPs comprise an estimated 11 per cent (40,000) of Belize’s (2016 Census), 9 per cent (70,000) of Guyana’s (2012 Census) and either 20 per cent (Kambel, 2006) or 12 per cent of Suriname’s population (according to Government figures–2 per cent or 11,000 Indigenous and 10 per cent or 54,000 Maroons). The Maroons of Suriname a...