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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition

Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition

A Canadian Obligation

by Marie Battiste and James Sa'ke'j Youngblood Henderson

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Imprint: Purich Books

424 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm

Paperback
9780774880824
Published: June 2025

£34.00

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Hardcover
9780774881142
Published: October 2024

£100.00

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Description
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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, this book 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.

Exordium

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

1 Eurocentrism and the European Ethnographic Tradition

2 Indigenous Peoples' Struggles for Respect, Dignity, and Self-Determination

3 What Is Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge?

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

4 The Indigenous Domain and Eurocentric Intellectual and Cultural Property Rights

5 Rethinking Intellectual Property Rights

6 Indigenous Peoples' International Reforms of Knowledge and Heritage

7 Protecting Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge and Heritage in Canadian Law

8 Indigenous Peoples' Knowledge and Heritage in Canada

Part 3: Canadian Law and Policy Reforms

9 Aligning Canadian Law with Indigenous Peoples' Inherent Rights

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 (British Columbia, 2019)

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

References; Index

Marie Battiste is a citizen of the Mi'kmaq Nation of Potlotek First Nations and of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs in Maine. She is professor emerita in the College of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a widely published author and editor, an officer in the Order of Canada, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Among her multiple honours are a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, a University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher Award, a Distinguished Academic Award from the Canadian Association of University Teachers, and the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Medal for Service to Canada.

James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson is a member of the Chickasaw Nation and a former director of the Native Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. A noted author and human rights lawyer, he has served as a leading constitutional adviser for the Assembly of First Nations and the Mi'kmaw Nation and is a member of the advisory board to the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is a fellow of the Native American Academy and of the Royal Society of Canada, and a recipient of the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Law and Justice.