If you understand French, I would suggest you the online interview with Beatrice Nates Cruz dedicated to the notion of territory in Columbia. This interview is part of the French "Audiovisual Research Archive" (ARA)(http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/230/introduction.asp).

A Spanisch version of this interview, you find here: http://www.archivesaudiovisuelles.fr/230_es/

I live in India. A country put together in a map largely drawn by the British colonizers and the maintained by large State players. The right to property, homeland, territorial sovereignty all require globally recognized script, a culture of private property, and a willingness to play the capitalist game. In most tribal or rural cultures there is a lack of scripted evidence for their existence (which is now however hopefully changing), a clear cultural difference which is closer to the ecosystem they survive in, and a closer knit notion of community. These however are sweeping generalisations. And since, I am not really answering your question I thought I must limit my commas. My existence is urban, born and brought up in a city. Forests were for hikes most of my childhood. Until of course I had the privilege of parents and teachers who did so much work outside their person, introducing me to a lot of literature, history, and reality.

There is a seminar happening in 2014 in Bodoland University, which might be of interest to your work.

International Seminar on Indian State and Indigenous / Tribal Peoples: Revisiting Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Guarantees - [http://tiss.edu/workshops-seminars-conferences-programme/international-seminar-on-indian-state-and-indigenous-tribal-peoples-revisiting-philosophical-foundations-of-constitutional-guarantees]

This is a speech by a young journalism student from Nagaland, studying in Chennai. I listened to her at a seminar in Asian College of Journalism, and putting this piece together on the blog was one of my enriching experiences in regard to tribal and indigenous peoples. [http://chaikadai.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/my-nagaland/]

Any other literature or perspectives I come across, I shall share with you.

On a general (and theoretic) level, I would recommend the texts by Arturo Escobar, Aníbal Quijano, Walter Mignolo and the "Grupo modernidad/colonialidad" in general. Will Kymlicka and his work on multiculturalism also refers to the topic of territory.

Concerning the indigenous perspective, I can recommend the publications of the Institute ILDIS, above all, the journal La Tendencia with a heavy participation of indigenous leaders and intellectuals (here: http://www.fes-ecuador.org/pages/inicio.php). And of course the different indigenous organizations: CONAIE, FENOCIN and FEINE and their institutions such as the Universidad Intercultural Amawtay Wasi or the Instituto Científico de Culturas Indígenas.

There are some elaborated publications from Mark Nuttall and Frank Sejersen on the perception of land. Their research show that the Greenlandic Inuit have an intimate attachment and sense of belonging to the landscape. Nuttall talked about memoryscapes and Sejersen introduced the term visionscapes. You can have a view on this literature:

• Nuttall, Mark. 1992. Arctic homeland: kinship, community, and development in northwest Greenland. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Sejersen, Frank. 2002. Local knowledge, sustainability and visionscapes in Greenland. Copenhagen: Department of Eskimology.
• Sejersen, Frank. 2004. "Horizons of Sustainability in Greenland: Inuit Landscapes of Memory and Vision." Arctic Anthropology 41(1):71-89.

Hope this helps!