indigenous rights theme

The putative rights of groups and individual claiming to belong to groups that claim to represent indigenous population in a country settled from elsewhere, are discussed.

6 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 1 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
tng1x18 choice Were the Federation terraformers justified in wiping out a race of tiny, sentient organisms to pave the way for humanoid colonization?
futurama3x10 major The Wong's tricked the Native Martians into selling Mars for one lousy bead.
movie: Humanoids from the Deep (1980) major Johnny Eagle was filing a lawsuit to prevent the Canco company from opening a cannery in his community on account that doing so was in violation of a treaty signed between the government and his tribe.
movie: Jetsons: The Movie (1990) major It turned out that the asteroid mining facility was actually drilling into the Grungees' community, which was based in a city inside the asteroid. And George ultimately coerced Mr. Spacely into letting the Grungees run the facility and sell its products to Mr. Spacely's company at a fair price.
tng7x20 major Picard was sent on a mission by the Federation to forcibly resettle a colony of Native American descendants to a new planet against their will.
movie: Varan the Unbelievable (1962) minor The indigenous population objected to the military coming in using their lake as a testing ground for a new desalination process, but the military did it anyway.