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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition

A Canadian Obligation

New edition

Examines past and emerging issues in the recognition of Indigenous inherent human rights and knowledge within a Canadian legal context.

In 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples became law, extending inherent human rights for the first time to the approximately half a billion Indigenous people around the planet. But nation-states have been slow to rethink their laws and policies.

Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage situates Canadian progress in undertaking these reforms within a global context and explains what Indigenous knowledge is, who may use it, and how to provide it with legal protection. By tracing decade-long negotiations with British Columbia and Canada, it demonstrates the fundamental role of Indigenous advocacy in developing legislation and action plans to implement inherent rights.

This fully new edition tackles current issues in intellectual property rights and topics such as the revision of educational curricula to incorporate Indigenous content and methodologies. What emerges is a proposal for cooperative legal reform that will invigorate Indigenous knowledge systems and heritage.

376 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2024

Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society

Native American and Indigenous Studies


Table of Contents

Exordium

Part 1: The Lodge of Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Heritage in Modern Thought

Chapter 1: Eurocentrism and the European Ethnographic Tradition

Chapter 2: Indigenous Peoples’ Struggle for Respect, Dignity, and Self-Determination

Chapter 3: What Is Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge?

Part 2: The Indigenous Peoples’ Movement to Reform Knowledge and Heritage Regimes

Chapter 4: The Indigenous Domain and Eurocentric Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights

Chapter 5: Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights

Chapter 6: Indigenous Peoples’ International Reforms of Knowledge and Heritage

Chapter 7: Protecting Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Heritage in Canadian Law

Chapter 8: Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Heritage in Canada

Part 3: Canadian Law and Policy Reforms

Chapter 9: Aligning Canadian Law with Indigenous Peoples’ Inherent Rights

Chapter 10: Decolonizing the Education System

Reflections

Appendix A: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007)

Appendix B: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019)

Appendix C: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2021)

References

Index

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