Aline Castañeda Cadena
Biographic Data
| ID | 8971900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aline Castañeda Cadena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aline Castañeda |
| FAMILY NAME | Cadena |
| SIGNATURE | CADENA A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for World Indigenous Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Responsibilities Into Rights
This article examines how settler colonialism translated Indigenous social systems—rooted in communal responsibilities and kinship with both humans and "more-than-human" beings—into Western structures of individual rights and state sovereignty. Eric Cheyfitz argues that, prior to colonization, Indigenous societies operated through principles of consensus, reciprocity, and responsibility, without the separation between society and state that defin…
From Reconciliation to ReconciliAction
This personal reflection details the authors' experiences as childcare workers at St. Michael's Indian Residential School in 1970 and their subsequent journey toward understanding and advocating for truth and reconciliation in Canada. Witnessing the pervasive abuse, neglect, and cultural genocide within the residential school system, the authors initially remained silent for fifty years. Their compelling narrative recounts their renewed commitmen…
A Voice At the Table
A variety of Inter-State Agreements (ISA) have been developed to establish policies and expectations regarding environmental policy and management. However, governance mechanisms have not been developed to provide for the substantive involvement of Indigenous Nations within States to participate in the development and implementation of these policies.Indigenous knowledge systems, rights, and interests are critical to the development of practical …
Ezidikhan Rises from Genocide
For more than 6000 years, Yezidi have celebrated their place in the fertile region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia. Now they are situated in the states of Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, and Iran. Since the formation of the Ottoman Empire (1300-1922), which was originally established in Anatolia—the location of contemporary Turkey, the Yezidi have suffered innumerable crises threatening their lives and property including …
Green Energy Mining and Indigenous Peoples’ Troubles
The countries of China, the United States, India, Russia, Japan, and Germany emit 60% of the world’s carbon gases that cause climate change and the breakdown of biodiversity. At the same time, these countries, and the corporations they created seek to make sizable economic profits from “Green Energy” as a replacement for dependence on the carbon-based economy. State government and corporate policies promote the mining of metals such as gold, tant…
Sidestepping the Climate Change Juggernaut
Root vegetable polyculture growing practices used alongside permaculture design inspired passive solar greenhouses offer a novel methodology for ecologically benign, efficient staple food crop production. These systems have great potential to address the issue of food security in the face of abrupt climate change and can serve as a tool for marginalized groups such as indigenous peoples to maintain their food security and preserve their botanical…
A Framework for Implementing the Principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) – Comity or Conflict
The central issue facing the world’s first nations was historically and remains today the question of access to and use of the territory they occupy. Peoples’ migrations, occupations, and colonization have continued as part of human relations for more than 60,000 years. Over this time, relations between emerging nations featured one nation being absorbed by another, some becoming associated through social mixing and independent nations remaining …
Nations’ Land Rights vs. Corporate Exploitation
Challenging the predatory impact of extractive industries upon indigenous nations and peoples around the globe requires the formulation of effective global strategies to pursue the creation and implementation of a legal framework. Analysts suggest five possible strategies to resist successfully and potentially overcome state-assisted corporate extraction and prevent environmental destruction of biodiversity, climate change, sea-level rise, and fr…
A Leader of Nations, Joe DeLaCruz
FWJ Editor in Chief: In 1979 Quinault President Joe DeLaCruz called the Indian Leaders of nations to a Conference of Tribal Governments in Tumwater, Washington (USA) to formulate new policies by the governments to advance self-government. As the Executive Director of the Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington in that year I had the honor of working with Joe to organize and convene the Conference. President DeLaCruz saw self-determination…
Sovereignty in the Third and Fourth World
The topic of colonialism has a rich scholarly history. Many scholars, with some success, havedeclared themselves postcolonial or developed theories such as neo-colonialism to describe thecurrent international structure. The question of colonial structures, however, still plays a majorrole in current politics. This study looks specifically at expressions of sovereignty within thecolonial framework today that have stemmed from historical events aft…
“Our Struggle Continues.” Confronting the Dynamics of Dispossession in the Peruvian Amazon
The Shipibo-Konibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya is struggling against the dispossession and devastation of their ancestral lands due to the aggressive expansion of oil palm. This article discusses the social and cultural impacts of agribusiness-led deforestation on the community and their territory. The discussion focuses on the political and legal strategies they have developed together with allies to demand the restitution and remediatio…
Cultural Genocide
Raphael Lemkin invented the word “genocide” after spending decades researching the consequences of kingdoms and states colonizing peoples in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Melanesia and the Pacific Islands from the 15th century to the present. He concluded that colonization had the effect of destroying peoples “in whole or in part” by destroying their cultures. In this essay the authors introduce and examine the major characteristics of cultural des…
Egongot Tribal Development and an NGO as a Catalyst for Sustainability
The potential contribution of Indigenous philosophy to global sustainability remains largely unrealized. A significant part of the challenge is the need to actualize the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within the jurisdictions of specific countries. The Philippines represents countries where Indigeneity is defined more by community of residence and traditional livelihoods, rather than heritage alone. Although Indige…
To Establish a Congress of Nations and States (CNS)
In my book entitled, Biodiversity Wars: Coexistence of Biocultural Collapse in the 21st Century (DayKeeper Press, 2019)[1] I discuss at length the need for a renewed effort to identify and advance an analysis and proposals for new mechanisms to bridge the economic, social, political and cultural gap between Fourth World nations and the world’s 203 states. I point to the ultimate necessity of establishing constructive mechanisms for cooperation be…
Russian Federation
Within the course of the past decades, many achievements have been made with reference to indigenous rights standards, primarily through indigenous engagement and dedication within global society. After 50 years of active participation in the global arena, indigenous rights movements continue to gain momentum transforming into one of “the most visible civil society grouping across the UN” (Morgan, 2011,p.2). As a result of adoption of internation…
Traditional Foods and Medicines and Mounting Chronic Disease for Indigenous Peoples Worldwide
This essay discusses the rationale, theoretical foundation, method and focus of the two-year study: “Indigenous Peoples’ Health: Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on Plant and Animal-based Foods and Medicines” undertaken by the Center for World Indigenous Studies beginning in late 2017. The study employs a relational investigative approach aimed at establishing the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on traditional plants and animals on which i…
China’s Crime Against Uyghurs is a Form of Genocide
The importance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to China, economically, politically, and strategically, cannot be overstated. Covering 640,000 square miles, Uyghuristan is approximately the size of Iran. Located in the far west, it is Beijing’s largest administrative unit encompassing one-sixth of China’s territory. Due to an abundance of coal, natural gas, and oil, accounting for roughly a quarter of China’s total reserves, Uyghuristan h…
Heritage Food Security in a Changing Climate
In addition to providing support for cultural heritage, permaculture guild food forests also provide potential to improve the food security of indigenous peoples in a changing climate. Far from simply being supplemental to people’s diets, in many instances food forests have the potential to provide a substantial proportion of the caloric requirements for a community, reducing their reliance on remotely produced grain crops. This paper advocates f…
Amazigh Children’s Toys and Play Cultures
This article shows handmade toys, and the games in which they are used, by indigenous children from the large group of Amazigh peoples living in North Africa and the Sahara
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Traditional Foods and Medicines and Mounting Chronic Disease for Indigenous Peoples Worldwide
This essay discusses the rationale, theoretical foundation, method and focus of the two-year study: “Indigenous Peoples’ Health: Effects of Elevated Atmospheric CO2 on Plant and Animal-based Foods and Medicines” undertaken by the Center for World Indigenous Studies beginning in late 2017. The study employs a relational investigative approach aimed at establishing the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on traditional plants and animals on which i…
China’s Crime Against Uyghurs is a Form of Genocide
The importance of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to China, economically, politically, and strategically, cannot be overstated. Covering 640,000 square miles, Uyghuristan is approximately the size of Iran. Located in the far west, it is Beijing’s largest administrative unit encompassing one-sixth of China’s territory. Due to an abundance of coal, natural gas, and oil, accounting for roughly a quarter of China’s total reserves, Uyghuristan h…
Heritage Food Security in a Changing Climate
In addition to providing support for cultural heritage, permaculture guild food forests also provide potential to improve the food security of indigenous peoples in a changing climate. Far from simply being supplemental to people’s diets, in many instances food forests have the potential to provide a substantial proportion of the caloric requirements for a community, reducing their reliance on remotely produced grain crops. This paper advocates f…
Amazigh Children’s Toys and Play Cultures
This article shows handmade toys, and the games in which they are used, by indigenous children from the large group of Amazigh peoples living in North Africa and the Sahara
Cultural Genocide
Raphael Lemkin invented the word “genocide” after spending decades researching the consequences of kingdoms and states colonizing peoples in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Melanesia and the Pacific Islands from the 15th century to the present. He concluded that colonization had the effect of destroying peoples “in whole or in part” by destroying their cultures. In this essay the authors introduce and examine the major characteristics of cultural des…
Egongot Tribal Development and an NGO as a Catalyst for Sustainability
The potential contribution of Indigenous philosophy to global sustainability remains largely unrealized. A significant part of the challenge is the need to actualize the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within the jurisdictions of specific countries. The Philippines represents countries where Indigeneity is defined more by community of residence and traditional livelihoods, rather than heritage alone. Although Indige…
To Establish a Congress of Nations and States (CNS)
In my book entitled, Biodiversity Wars: Coexistence of Biocultural Collapse in the 21st Century (DayKeeper Press, 2019)[1] I discuss at length the need for a renewed effort to identify and advance an analysis and proposals for new mechanisms to bridge the economic, social, political and cultural gap between Fourth World nations and the world’s 203 states. I point to the ultimate necessity of establishing constructive mechanisms for cooperation be…
Russian Federation
Within the course of the past decades, many achievements have been made with reference to indigenous rights standards, primarily through indigenous engagement and dedication within global society. After 50 years of active participation in the global arena, indigenous rights movements continue to gain momentum transforming into one of “the most visible civil society grouping across the UN” (Morgan, 2011,p.2). As a result of adoption of internation…
A Leader of Nations, Joe DeLaCruz
FWJ Editor in Chief: In 1979 Quinault President Joe DeLaCruz called the Indian Leaders of nations to a Conference of Tribal Governments in Tumwater, Washington (USA) to formulate new policies by the governments to advance self-government. As the Executive Director of the Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington in that year I had the honor of working with Joe to organize and convene the Conference. President DeLaCruz saw self-determination…
Sovereignty in the Third and Fourth World
The topic of colonialism has a rich scholarly history. Many scholars, with some success, havedeclared themselves postcolonial or developed theories such as neo-colonialism to describe thecurrent international structure. The question of colonial structures, however, still plays a majorrole in current politics. This study looks specifically at expressions of sovereignty within thecolonial framework today that have stemmed from historical events aft…
“Our Struggle Continues.” Confronting the Dynamics of Dispossession in the Peruvian Amazon
The Shipibo-Konibo community of Santa Clara de Uchunya is struggling against the dispossession and devastation of their ancestral lands due to the aggressive expansion of oil palm. This article discusses the social and cultural impacts of agribusiness-led deforestation on the community and their territory. The discussion focuses on the political and legal strategies they have developed together with allies to demand the restitution and remediatio…
Ezidikhan Rises from Genocide
For more than 6000 years, Yezidi have celebrated their place in the fertile region between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia. Now they are situated in the states of Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, and Iran. Since the formation of the Ottoman Empire (1300-1922), which was originally established in Anatolia—the location of contemporary Turkey, the Yezidi have suffered innumerable crises threatening their lives and property including …
Green Energy Mining and Indigenous Peoples’ Troubles
The countries of China, the United States, India, Russia, Japan, and Germany emit 60% of the world’s carbon gases that cause climate change and the breakdown of biodiversity. At the same time, these countries, and the corporations they created seek to make sizable economic profits from “Green Energy” as a replacement for dependence on the carbon-based economy. State government and corporate policies promote the mining of metals such as gold, tant…
Sidestepping the Climate Change Juggernaut
Root vegetable polyculture growing practices used alongside permaculture design inspired passive solar greenhouses offer a novel methodology for ecologically benign, efficient staple food crop production. These systems have great potential to address the issue of food security in the face of abrupt climate change and can serve as a tool for marginalized groups such as indigenous peoples to maintain their food security and preserve their botanical…
A Framework for Implementing the Principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) – Comity or Conflict
The central issue facing the world’s first nations was historically and remains today the question of access to and use of the territory they occupy. Peoples’ migrations, occupations, and colonization have continued as part of human relations for more than 60,000 years. Over this time, relations between emerging nations featured one nation being absorbed by another, some becoming associated through social mixing and independent nations remaining …
Nations’ Land Rights vs. Corporate Exploitation
Challenging the predatory impact of extractive industries upon indigenous nations and peoples around the globe requires the formulation of effective global strategies to pursue the creation and implementation of a legal framework. Analysts suggest five possible strategies to resist successfully and potentially overcome state-assisted corporate extraction and prevent environmental destruction of biodiversity, climate change, sea-level rise, and fr…
A Voice At the Table
A variety of Inter-State Agreements (ISA) have been developed to establish policies and expectations regarding environmental policy and management. However, governance mechanisms have not been developed to provide for the substantive involvement of Indigenous Nations within States to participate in the development and implementation of these policies.Indigenous knowledge systems, rights, and interests are critical to the development of practical …
Responsibilities Into Rights
This article examines how settler colonialism translated Indigenous social systems—rooted in communal responsibilities and kinship with both humans and "more-than-human" beings—into Western structures of individual rights and state sovereignty. Eric Cheyfitz argues that, prior to colonization, Indigenous societies operated through principles of consensus, reciprocity, and responsibility, without the separation between society and state that defin…
From Reconciliation to ReconciliAction
This personal reflection details the authors' experiences as childcare workers at St. Michael's Indian Residential School in 1970 and their subsequent journey toward understanding and advocating for truth and reconciliation in Canada. Witnessing the pervasive abuse, neglect, and cultural genocide within the residential school system, the authors initially remained silent for fifty years. Their compelling narrative recounts their renewed commitmen…
Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (11 works) · Geological Modeling and Analysis (11 works) · Indigenous (9 works) · Electrical and Electromagnetic Research (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Genocide (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works)