Indigenous rights : In the age of the UN declaration

Contents:
Indigenous rights and international law: an introduction;
1. Indigenous self-determination, culture and land: a reassessment in light of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
2. Treaties, peoplehood and self-determination: understanding the language of rights in the UN Declaration; 3. Talking up indigenous peoples' original intent in a space dominated by state interventions;
4. Australia's NT intervention and indigenous rights on language education and culture: an ethnocidal solution to aboriginal 'dysfunction'?;
5. Articulating indigenous statehood: Cherokee state formation and implications for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
6. 'The freedom to pass and repass': can the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples keep the US-Canadian border ten feet above our heads?;
7. Traditional responsibility and spiritual relatives: protection of indigenous rights to land and sacred places; 8. Seeking the corn mother: transnational indigenous community building and organizing, food sovereignty and native literary studies;
9. 'Use and control': issues of repatriation and redress in American Indian literature;
10. Contested ground: 'AEina, identity and nationhood in Hawaii;
11. Kanawai, international law, and the discourse of indigenous justice: some reflections on the Peoples' International Tribunal in Hawaii;
Afterword: implementing the Declaration.