Examines international indigenous advocacy from the 1970s to today, and considers how questions of culture play into discourses of self-determination and indigenous rights.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I. International and Transnational Indigenous Movements
1. Setting the Stage for the Transnational Indigenous Rights Movement: Domestic and International Law and Politics 17
2. Indigenous Movements in the Americas in the 1970s: The Fourth World Movement and Pan-indigenism 46
3. International Institutions and Indigenous Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s: Self-Determination Claims 67
4. International Indigenous Advocacy in the 1980s: Following the Model of a Human Right to Culture 100
Part II. Human Rights and the Uses of Culture in Indigenous Rights Advocacy
5. Culture as Heritage 141
6. Culture as Grounded in Land 162
7. Culture as Development 183
Part III. Indigenous Models in Other Contexts: The Case of Afro-Colombians
8. The History of Law 70: Culture as Heritage, Land, and Development 223
9. The Periphery of Law 70: Afro-Colombians in the Caribbean 254
Conclusion 274
Notes 279
Bibliography 349
Index 383

Karen Engle is the Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law and the Director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law. She is an editor of After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture.