B.1. Campaigns for Civil, Political and Cultural Rights

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Introduction

This section focuses primarily on four countries in which European colonization led to indigenous peoples losing their lands and way of life (and in some cases their almost total destruction): Australia, New Zealand and Canada and the USA. In all four there have been vigorous campaigns for indigenous rights since the 1960s. Some Native American organizations span the USA and Canada, and the US Civil Rights Movement as well as its subsequent Black Power phase, influenced indigenous groups both in North America and in New Zealand and Australia. This section also briefly covers the struggle of the only European indigenous people, the Saami, in northern Scandinavia.

For an overview of the political and legal position of indigenous peoples within these countries and comparative assessments see:

Chesterman, John; Galligan, Brian Citizens Without Rights, [1997], Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998 , pp. 288

On Australia. It includes some references to protests.
Indigenous Peoples and the Nation State: ‘Fourth World’ Politics in Canada, Australia and Norway, ed. Dyck, Noel, St John’s Nfld, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985 , pp. 263

Fleras, Augie; Elliott, Jean The Nations Within, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992 , pp. 267

Covers Canada, New Zealand and the USA.
Ivanitz, Michele Democracy and Indigenous Self-Determination, In April Carter, Geoffrey Stokes, Democratic Theory Today: Challenges for the 21st Century, Cambridge, Polity, 2002 , pp. 307 , pp. 121-148

Compares Australia and Canada
Macklem, Patrick Distributing Sovereignty: Indian Nations and Equality of Peoples, Vol. 45, issue 5 (May), 1993 , pp. 1311-1367

Compares Canada and USA from a legal perspective.

Websites recommended

Citizens Without Rights Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1998

On Australia. It includes some references to protests.
Democracy and Indigenous Self-Determination Cambridge Polity, 2002

Compares Australia and Canada
Distributing Sovereignty: Indian Nations and Equality of Peoples , 1993

Compares Canada and USA from a legal perspective.
Indigenous Peoples and the Nation State: ‘Fourth World’ Politics in Canada, Australia and Norway St John’s Nfld Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985
The Nations Within Oxford Oxford University Press, 1992

Covers Canada, New Zealand and the USA.