Indigenous Rights

Anthony J. Connolly

Contents: Introduction; Part I Conceptual, Historical and International Context: 'Indigenous peoples' in international law: a constructivist approach to the Asian controversy, Benedict Kingsbury; 'Just backward children': international law and the conquest of non-European peoples, Paul Keal; Indigenous peoples, international institutions, and the international legal literature from 1945-1993, Chris Tennant. Part II Indigenous Rights, Liberalism and Historical Injustice: Kymlicka, liberalism and respect for cultural minorities, John Tomasi; Land, culture and justice: a framework for group rights and recognition, Jeff Spinner-Halev; Historical obligations, Janna Thompson. Part III Kinds of Indigenous Rights: Reconciling 5 competing conceptual structures of indigenous peoples' claims in international and comparative law, Benedict Kingsbury; Indigenous Political Rights - Self-Determination, Self-Government and Sovereignty: Political autonomy and integration of authority: the understanding of Saami self-determination, Else Grete Broderstad; Aboriginal self-government and the construction of Canadian constitutional identity, Michael Asch; Distributing sovereignty: Indian nations and equality of peoples, Patrick Macklem; Indigenous Treaty Rights: Sacred obligations: intercultural justice and the discourse of treaty rights, Rebecca Tsosie; Waitangi tales, Robert E. Goodwin; Indigenous Land and Natural Resources Rights: The sui generis nature of aboriginal rights: does it make a difference?, John Borrows and Leonard I. Rotman; Indigenous rights and environmental justice, Roy W. Perrett; Indigenous Cultural Property Rights: Looking beyond intellectual property in resolving protection of the intangible cultural heritage of indigenous peoples, Robert K. Paterson and Dennis S. Karjala; Culture, autonomy and Djulibinyamurr: individual and community in the construction of rights to traditional designs, Kimberlee Weatherall. Part IV Beyond Indigenous Rights?: Aboriginal peoples