Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across parts of the Amazon.

There would be no harm if the city of Columbia Falls adopted self-governing powers, the director of the Local Government Center at Montana State University told the government study commission ...

While these islands are almost all defined as "non-self-governing"-the criterion for the coverage of the South Pacific Commission-most of them manage their own affairs and have a degree of self- ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New ...

APRIMARY obligation of Europeans and Americans toward colonial peoples is generally held to be to "educate the native" for self-government. In postwar plans this obligation is usually expressed in the ...

A charter would provide self-governing powers: Missoula could decide to take up issues and draft county rules and regulations on anything not forbidden by state or federal law. Stone-Manning voted ...

The proposed deal with the Kitselas nation is the first treaty with a B.C. First Nation in more than a decade and would give the band 38,000 hectares of land and self-governing powers. Kitselas ...

He lives in Sooke. Supporting and facilitating self-governing homeless communities is a good idea. Such communities, of course, would not represent a permanent solution to the crisis in our area.

William S. Geimer is a retired lawyer and a professor of law emeritus at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, ­Virginia. He lives in Sooke. Supporting and facilitating self-governing homeless ...