Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge by Battiste, Marie

Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781895830156)

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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge by Battiste, Marie

Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge

$39.99
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge by Battiste, Marie

Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage: A Global Challenge

$39.99
Format: Paperback
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Whether in Canada, the United States, Australia, India, Peru, or Russia, the approximately 500 million Indigenous Peoples in the world have faced a similar fate at the hands of colonizing powers. Assaults on language and culture, commercialization of art, and use of plant knowledge in the development of medicine have taken place all without consent, acknowledgement, or benefit to these Indigenous groups worldwide. Battiste and Henderson passionately detail the devastation these assaults have wrought on Indigenous peoples, why current legal regimes are inadequate to protect Indigenous knowledge, and put forward ideas for reform. Looking at the issues from an international perspective, this book explores developments in various countries including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and also the work of the United Nations and relevant international agreements.

Author: Marie Battiste
ISBN-10: 189583015X
ISBN-13: 9781895830156
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2000
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2001 pg. 62
By Marie Battiste
By Marie Battiste
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Marie Battiste is a Mi'kmaq from Unama'kik (Cape Brenton, Nova Scotia), and a graduate of Harvard and Stanford. She is a professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, and Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre, both at the University of Saskatchewan, and a United Nations technical expert on the guidelines for protecting Indigenous heritage. She is the editor of First Nations Education in Canada and Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision. James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson is Chickasaw, born to the Bear Clan of the Chickasaw Nation and Cheyenne Tribe in Oklahoma. He was one of the first American Indians to graduate in law from Harvard University. He is a member of the University of Saskatchewan's College of Law and is Research Director of the University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre. He is the author and editor of many books including Mi'kmaq Concordat; The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty; and Aboriginal Tenure in the Constitution of Canada.

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