Decolonising Indigenous Rights [Paperback]

Covering a wide range of issues relating to the topic, this book examines the experiences and perceptions of indigenous peoples in the context of the national states and political systems that have been externally imposed and implemented upon them.

Fascinating and incisive, the text discusses a range of areas such as:

• indigenous territories
• concepts of political autonomy and sovereignty that have been used to describe and constitute indigenous political projects
• Western notions of education in relation to indigenous societies' educational practice
• the broad Western historical understanding of the relationship with indigenous societies and the adequacy of the legal notion of belief to depict Aboriginal religiosity.

Contributors to this volume include anthropologists, jurists, educators, indigenous activists, scholars and sociologists.

Acknowledgments.  Introduction: Decolonising Approaches to Indigenous Rights  Adolfo de Oliveira.  1. Indigenous Peoples and their Territories  Andrew Gray  2. The Reconstruction of Waimiri-Atroari Territory  Stephen G. Baines  3. Legal Process of Abolition of Collective Property: The Mapuche Case  Jorge Calbucura  4. Religion, Belief and Action: The Case of Ngarrindjeri Womens Business on Hindmarsh Island, South Australia, 1994-1996  James F. Weiner  5. American Indian Sovereignty: Now You See It, Now You Dont  Peter dErrico  6. A Possible Indigenism: The Limits of the Constitutional Amendment in Argentina  GELIND  7. Strategies for Equities in Indigenous ElÃ!