Indigenous Peoples as Subjects of International Law

Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald, Meintangk and Boandik First Nations Peoples. She is a Professor of Law at the University of South Australia.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Irene Watson

1 Aboriginal nations, the Australian nation-state and Indigenous international legal traditions

Ambellin Kwaymullina

2 Domination in relation to Indigenous (‘dominated’) Peoples in international law

Steven Newcomb

3 The ‘natural’ Law of nations: society and the exclusion of First Nations as subjects of international law

Marcelle Burns

4 Long before Munich: the American template for Hitlerian diplomacy

Ward Churchill

5 First Nations, Indigenous Peoples: our laws have always been here

Irene Watson

5 Law and politics of Indigenous self-determination: the meaning of the right to prior consultation

Roger Merino

7 How governments manufacture consent and use it against Indigenous Peoples

Sharon Venne

8 ‘Kill the Indian in the child’: genocide in international law

Tamara Starblanket

Bibliography

Index