Articles written by Woorama
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Reconciliation and Colonialism
Excerpts from an open letter to the Australian Prime Minister by Gungalidda Elder Wadjularbinna Nulyarimma in 2005, on the realities of reconciliation.
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Aborigines and Free Trade
In Australia a free trade agreement with the United States means bad news for Aboriginal communities, just as it was for First Nations in Mexico, Chile and Canada.
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Native Rites of Passage Today
Amidst conflicting gender roles and stereotypes, Indigenous boys explore their options for becoming men in the modern world.
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Indigenous Christmas Origins
Flying reindeer, Santa coming down the chimney, elves with pointy hats, mistletoe - all these Christmas myths originate from Aboriginal cultures.
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Native Declarations and Charters
A summary of some indigenous statements and declarations for aboriginal intellectual and cultural property rights and ethical standards from around the world.
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Interface Research and Education
Increasingly, educators and researchers are using the interface between Aboriginal and non-local knowledge, identifying opportunities for synergy rather than dominance.
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Tarahumara Aborigines
The Tarahumara have retained a traditional lifestyle and resisted colonisation over three and a half centuries of European contact. Now tourism threatens their existence.
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Aborigines and Conservationism
Aborigines and Greens both have a strong environmental focus in activism. But are conservationists in reality serving a colonial agenda when it comes to land rights?
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Howard and Aboriginal Australia
The record of John Howard's interaction with Australian Aborigines from 1996 to 2007 reveals an aggressive colonial agenda.
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Bolivian Indigenous Revolution
In Bolivia, there is a neo-conservative backlash against Andean aboriginal peoples who are seeking to build a pluralist state in which native peoples have autonomy.
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Wangkumarra, Native Title, Mining
Mining giant Santos is ripping off the Wangkumarra people and destroying the land through petroleum mining and "seismic line" exploration techniques.
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Ganiekeh and Iroquois Confederacy
Sometimes a family can subvert aboriginal law for their own ends within the economy of the dominant culture. Kahentinetha Bear writes about the situation in Ganiekeh.
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Conflict Diamonds and Bushmen
The forcible and illegal removal of Bushmen from their homelands is conflict in anybody's language. But under the Kimberly Process, these diamonds are clean.
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Aboriginal Syndrome X
The myth of Aboriginal genetic deficit is becoming reality through malnutrition and a plague of Syndrome X that is becoming hereditary through intergenerational poverty.
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Paul Keating's Redfern Speech
An excerpt from Keating's 1992 speech at Redfern, Sydney. The political climate around Aboriginal rights has certainly changed since then.
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Indigenous Cosmology and Science
Aboriginal cosmology, dismissed as "myth", has a lot to offer science in the quest for "extra-terrestrial life and intelligence". The problem is defining the terms.
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Indian Rituals In Prison
In American prisons, Indian inmates struggle against a system dedicated to eradicating Native American indigenous spiritual practices and ceremonies.
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Nuba Genocide in Sudan
The Nuba, having remained aloof from colonial culture and trade since ancient Egyptian times, are now succumbing to the ravages of war, mining and business interests.
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Prussian Indigenous Revival
The Prusi indigenous people of former Prussia, thought to be extinct since the Crusades, are making a comeback. Young European pagans are reclaiming tribal identities.
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Indigenous Cyprus
Native Cypriots have endured millennia of multiple invaders, yet retain their cultural integrity and claim to land, despite losing half their island to Turkish invaders.
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Pearson's Aboriginal Literacy Push
In Australia, millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on a phonics program to turn back the clock on Indigenous education.
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Chagos Islanders' Court Win
Chagos Islanders have won the right to return to their native lands, from which they were once expelled by the British to make room for the American military.
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Aboriginal logic systems and ways of knowing are mostly dismissed as primitive and childlike. In fact they are complex systems that are vital to the future of humankind.
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Aboriginal Education Resistance
Anglo-centred curricula and school texts provoke resistance in Indigenous learners, resulting in widespread education failure in Aboriginal communities.
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Kaurna Cultural Recovery
Excerpts from a speech by Georgina Williams Yambo Kartanya, Ngangkiburka Kaurnayerta (Senior Woman, Kaurna Country), about recovering stolen identities.
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Government Intervention in NT
The Howard Settler Government's invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. Statement from activist Robbie Thorpe.
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Military in Aboriginal Communities
In Australia, the military has been deployed in an Indigenous community in response to allegations of paedophilia.
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The Ainu and Japanese Modernity
How Japan's quest for modernity and uniformity has almost eradicated the Ainu peoples of the Hokkaido.
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Stolen Generation Story
The harrowing story of Millicent, an Aboriginal child labelled "half-caste" and taken from her family by the Aboriginal Protection Board then repeatedly sexually abused.
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Andaman Tribe Strikes Back
There are four tribes on India's Andaman Islands, for three of whom genocidal colonialism has proven devastating over the last 40 years. One holds its ground.
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Eugenics and Aborigines
Genetic science, while having the potential to support social justice for Indigenous people, is often compromised by racist agendas grounded in Eugenics - Nazi ideology.
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Definition of Aboriginal
The myth of race has long dominated definitions of Aboriginality in Australia, impacting on the plethora of Aboriginal policies that continue to marginalise our peoples.
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Malaysian Penan
Catch 22. The Malaysian government has refused to grant land rights to the Sarawak Penan until they agree to settle in sedentary colonies, renouncing a nomadic lifestyle.
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Indigenous Ethiopia
Ethiopian indigenous peoples are threatened as much by colonial constructs of their identity as they are by bullets, drought and famine.
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Natives of Rapa Nui
Of all the myths and legends surrounding Easter Island, Western accounts of the "stranded and starving" Rapa Nui are the most far-fetched.
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French Celts - Bretons
Indigenous Breton guestwriter speaks about loss of Bretagne's indigenous language and cultural identity.
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Thai Indigenous Dispossession
Officials plan to use Thai villages for a development project, displacing over 80 000 indigenous people.
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Aboriginal Mental Health
Australian Aborigines suffer far higher rates of mental illness than non-Indigenous peoples. But who is causing this crisis, and more importantly, who is measuring it?
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Talk-Back Radio Racism
Aboriginal issues are perceived negatively by the wider public because of media portrayals, with talk-back radio hosts the most blatant culprits.
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Luxembourg Indigenousness
The indigenous Trevisi of Luxembourg were colonised by Rome 2000 years ago. Can their culturally unique descendants be described as indigenous today?
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Lubicon Cree Aborigines
When it comes to Aboriginal rights, colonial governments need not adhere to their own laws, as you can see in the neo-colonial invasion of the Cree.
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Aboriginal Role Models
A critical examination of the way Aboriginal role models are presented in the media indicates that the aim is not inspiration, but assimilation.
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Wanniyala-Aetto Evicted
Sri Lankan indigenous people were evicted from their traditional lands in the name of "wilderness conservation".
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Intertribal Conflict Myth
Colonial governments create and ignore intertribal conflicts, perpetuating the myth of chaotic, violent savagery in the indigenous world.
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Namatjira
Oldman Namatjira was an internationally renowned artist who lived under racist local laws making him an illegal alien on his own land. Still had to pay taxes though.
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Russian Indigenous Kazakhs
The nomadic Kazakhs of Russia have been colonised by Slavs, Cossacks, Stalinists, and Soviets. Result - famine, fallout, and an average age of 31.
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Batchuluun Indigenous Rights
Indigenous people the world over have a tough time reclaiming native lands, even through freehold title. Check out this story from Mongolia's aborigines.
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Aboriginal Media Portrayals
Negative representation of Aborigines in the media has been identified as a major cause of prejudice against Indigenous peoples in Australia.
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Corsican Tribal Diaspora
In countering loss of culture and the exodus of indigenous Corsicans from their motherland, is Corsica marginalising its ethnic minority of Arab immigrants?
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Netherlands Indigenous People
The Frisians are the indigenous people of the Netherlands. They have successfully fought for the right to maintain the Frisian language, spoken there for millennia.
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Indian Sexual Abuse Allegations
Sexual harrassment and child molestation charges are part of a government strategy to attack Onkwehonwe men. Guestwriter Kahentinetha Horn explains.
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Albion Indigenous Viewpoint
Celtic indigenous guest writer talks about colonial massacres of sacred animals, and British native peoples struggling to maintain contact with land and spirit.
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Courtroom Culture Bias
Courtroom language is culturally biased and aggressively colonial, alienating Indigenous defendants from mainstream justice and law.
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African Ancient History Denied
Colonists once claimed ancient Shona ruins as belonging to a "lost white civilisation". This myth was used to justify European occupation in Southern Africa.
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Adyghe, A Caucasian Tribe
The Adyghe people are one of many indigenous tribes of the Caucassus region, displaced by Russian invaders. Caucasian doesn't mean "white". Meet the real deal.
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Alaskan Native Title Privatisation
Participation in the market economy is on the global agenda as a solution for Indigenous community dysfunction. But we should examine the Alaskan experience, and beware..
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Iraq's Indigenous Peoples
Iraqis are not one undifferentiated culture, as perceived in the west. Here's a guest article from an indigenous Iraqi group - AINA.
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Yagan’s Head
In Western Australia, neo-colonial community attitudes are revealed in the decapitation and emasculation of an Aboriginal warrior's memorial by vandals and lobby groups.
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Global Warming To Drown Tuvalu
Tuvalu representative to the United Nations, Minute Alapati Taupo, tells the UN of the troubles facing his "sinking island".
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The Freedom Rides
Aboriginal activism of the sixties - this protest was a turning point in the dismantling of the infamous "White Australia Policy".
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Redefining Aboriginal Gender Roles
This guest writer is a Nyungar woman, making bold statements about the hardships faced by Indigenous women in Western Australia.
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"I” Is For Inuit Inequity
Popular culture stereotypes of "Eskimos" are far from harmless, as they shape perceptions of indigenous people and promote prejudice.
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Indigenous Charity
Do you remember the good old Band Aid lyrics? Patronising? Perpetuating indigenous myths and stereotypes? You be the judge.
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Waitangi Treaty Talk
Examining the famous New Zealand Treaty of Waitangi between the Maori and the British - the language of paternalism can be so amusing.
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Berbers, Tuareg, or Imazighen?
Assimilation of indigenous Imazighen in places like Algeria has disastrous results. But outsider definitions and labels can be equally damaging.
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Basque Native Rights
The Basques, the most invaded indigenous group on the planet, are fortunate enough to have gained true self-determination as a separatist state.
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Isle Of Man Natives
The Isle Of Man has been invaded by at least four different nations, but still retains its own indigenous customary rights.
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Columbus Day Controversy
Non-aboriginal viewpoint - guest writer Nanette Croce explores Native American and Italo-American tensions around Columbus Day. Celebrating diversity or genocide?
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Macedonian Indigenous Rights
"Macedonia" is the oldest surviving indigenous European nation by name, originating from 7000 BC. Today, they struggle for autonomy against Greek colonists.
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Origin Of Aboriginal Occupation
How long have Aboriginal people lived in Australia And America? Well, that depends on your cultural and political point of view.
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Filipino Indio Resistance
Indigenous people of the Philippines fought against colonisation by at least three different invaders for the best part of the last millennium.
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Tjukurrpa, Dreamtime, Dreaming
Examining the term "Dreamtime" as an example of the linguistic and cultural colonisation of Aboriginal peoples by western researchers.
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Indonesian Indigenous Rights
There are considerable barriers to Indonesian indigenous rights. But are these blocks natural, or merely paternalism in disguise?
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Six Nations Claim Haldimand Tract
Guest writer Kahentinetha Horn, MNN Mohawk Nation News, keeps us up to date with the ongoing battle over native title on the Haldimand Tract.
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Buffy Sainte Marie Lyrics
Read the lyrics from the Buffy Sainte Marie Song "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", with a brief explanation of references to Aboriginal Rights struggle.
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Assyrian Indigenous People
Assyrian Indigenous peoples in the Middle East have had half their population massacred or removed over the last century.
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Israeli Native Title
Israel has the most successful and openly supported Native Title claim in the world. They get to be colonists and natives simultaneously!
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Aboriginal Deaths In Custody
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody In Australia are higher than those of South Africa at the peak of Apartheid.
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Aboriginal Media Hoax
Australian politicians are constantly being caught out in their lies and outrageous claims against the Aboriginal community, and yet the propaganda continues.
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Argentina's Kolla Native Title
The Kolla, whose sovereignty has never been broken, whose Native Title is part of Argentina's constitution, still only have provisional Aboriginal Land Rights.
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Native Title Privatisation
Governments the world over seek to destroy Indigenous communal ownership by privatising Land Rights and carving up customary lands for individual ownership (and sale).
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Saemieh Aboriginal Rights
Ever heard the word "Tundra"? An aboriginal language word of the Reindeer people of Scandinavia, the Indigenous Sami.
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Aboriginal Poverty Statistics
72% of Australia's Aborigines are living in poverty. Remote Indigenous communities face particular economic disadvantage, despite so-called benefits.
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Indian Etiquette And Offense
Pointers to help well-meaning folks avoid being
unknowingly impolite to American Indian people.
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Aboriginal Military Resistance
Australian Aboriginal warriors have fought European invaders since 1770, and still fight today. Uncover the silenced history of Aboriginal military resistance.
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Jesus Was Aboriginal
The Christ poll I ran was misleading - Jesus' appearance is irrelevant to his African ethnicity, and to his politics - aboriginal activism against colonial oppression.
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Future After Aboriginal Genocide
A fictional idea of what the future might be like if native genocide and western mono-culturalism are allowed to continue unchecked. Sobering.
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Amazing Indian Facts
Some home truths about Native Americans that may change your mind about myths of "the primitive".
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Aboriginal Astronomy
Consulting the world's first astronomers for knowledge of science and law that has sustained the planet's longest enduring civilisation.
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Maori Renaissance
There is a rebirth of Indigenous identity in Aotearoa, grounded in native title, enabling a level of native autonomy unprecedented elsewhere in the colonial world.
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The Tribal Fetish
An Australian perspective on Nanette Croce's article, Aboriginal Wannabes. How is it that Aborigines can be so hated and so idealised simultaneously?
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Aboriginal Wannabes
Guest writer article from Nanette Croce, at Suite 101's Aboriginal History section.
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Feminism vs Native Rights
"Good Guys" part four. In the complex domain of Aboriginal rights, contemporary feminists often find themselves working for the enemy.
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New-Age vs Native Rights
"Good Guys" part three. In the complex domain of Aboriginal rights, new-age gurus often find themselves working for the enemy.
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Greens vs Native Rights
"Good Guys" part two. In the complex domain of Aboriginal rights, conservationists often find themselves working for the enemy.
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Marxism vs Native Rights
"Good Guys" part one. In the complex domain of Aboriginal rights, marxists sometimes find themselves working for the enemy.
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Aboriginal Critique Of Wolf Creek
Why is the film "Wolf Creek" so scary? Is it because it unmasks the Jolly Swagman, revealing the true face of the outback hero, a myth concealing a history of horror?
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Aboriginal Rights Mexico
Mexican guest writer Michelle Capistran challenges the Mestizo Myth, and the construct of Mexican nationality.
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Aboriginal Rights Hawai'i
Images of war-torn Iraq? A’ole! No! It's just business as usual in the so-called “state” of Hawai’i.
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Six Nations Land Rights
"They will always be the colonists and they will always have to negotiate with us. And if they don't negotiate in good faith, there will always be trouble."
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