Under the urging of late nineteenth-century humanitarian reformers, U.S. policy toward American Indians shifted from removal and relocation efforts to state-sponsored attempts to "civilize" Indians through allotment of tribal lands, citizenship, and forced education. There is little consensus,...

Indigenous peoples developed sustainable land tenure systems over countless generations, but these customary systems of rights are barely used by American Indian tribes today. Would increasing formal recognition of these traditional customs be desirable for tribes in a modern context? This...

ContextLandlessness continues to be high, more so among scheduled tribe (ST) households, in tribal dominant states such as Odisha. This can primarily be attributed to the existence of historical weaknesses in land administration systems.Current legal frameworks to prevent tribal land alienation,...

Land circulation can promote large-scale operation, improve land-use efficiency, and increase farmers’ income. Taking 186 rural households in Ledong County, a minority area of Hainan Province, as data samples, this study used binary logistic regression to analyze the factors affecting...