Full Description
This title was first published in 2003. One of the most dynamic areas of international law today concerns the rights and status of indigenous peoples. Within the contemporary discourse of international law, the term indigenous is now commonly used in association with a particular class of culturally distinctive groups together with the problems they face; problems that are legacies of historical patterns of invasion and colonization. The essays in this volume have been assembled to promote understanding about the relation of international law to the claims and aspirations that indigenous peoples have posited in the international arena today.
Contents
Contents; Historical Antecedents and Their Contemporary SignificanceIndigenous peoples in international law: the significance of Francisco de Vitoria and Bartolome de las Casas, G,C. Marks: The re-emergence of indigenous questions in international law, Douglas Sanders. The Argument for Recognition of Indigenous Sovereignty on the Basis of Established Modern Principles: The quest of the 6 Nations confederacy for self-determination, Darlene M. Johnston; Sovereignty and self-determination: the rights of Native Americans under international law, John Howard Clinebell and Jim Thomson. The Dynamics and Challenges of the Contemporary International Indigenous Rights Movement: Encounters on the frontiers of international human rights law: redefining the terms of indigenous peoples' survival in the world, Robert A. Williams Jr; 'Indigenous peoples' in international law: a constructivist approach to the Asian controversy, Benedict Kingsbury. The Emergence and Contours of a New Indigenous Rights Regime: Rights and status of indigenous peoples: a global comparative and international legal analysis, Siegfried Wiessner; A new step in the international law on indigenous and tribal peoples: ILO Convention No 169 of 1989, Lee Swepston; Some considerations on the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination, Erica-Irene A. Daes. Invoking the Contemporary Indigenous Rights Regime - 2 Examples: Australia's indigenous peoples and international law: validity of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (CTH), Gillian Triggs; The native Hawaiian people and international human rights law: toward a remedy for past and continuing wrongs, S. James Anaya; Name index.
