Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition
A Canadian Obligation
Second Edition
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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition
A Canadian Obligation
Second Edition
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.
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