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Rights of indigenous individuals and people to protect their culture through practices, languages, education, media, and religion, including control of their intellectual property (articles 9–15, 16, 25, and 31) Asserts the indigenous peoples' right to own type of governance and to economic development (articles 17–21, 35–37)
The Politics of Inclusion: Indigenous Peoples and U.S. Citizenship, by Rebecca Tsosie (UCLA Law Review) Native American identity in the United States [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Determining Native American and Indigenous Canadian identities (WP:IPNA essay)
Indigenous rights are those rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of indigenous peoples.This includes not only the most basic human rights of physical survival and integrity, but also the rights over their land (including native title), language, religion, and other elements of cultural heritage that are a part of their existence and identity as a people.
The law was enacted to return basic civil liberties to American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians, and to allow them to practice, protect and preserve their inherent right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religious rites, spiritual and cultural practices. [2]
With the law of the Indian Civil Rights Act (ICRA) at the time, also called the Indian Bill of Rights, the indigenous people were guaranteed many civil rights they had been fighting for. [17] The ICRA supports the following: [18] Right to free speech, press, and assembly; Protection from unreasonable invasion of homes
Melissa L. Tatum, Research Professor of Law and associate director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law; Charlene Teters , artist, educator, editor, and founding boardmember of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is a law that establishes the ownership of cultural items excavated or discovered on federal or tribal land after November 16, 1990. The act also applies to land transferred by the federal government to the states under the Water Resources Department Act. [ 6 ]
The Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 is an International Labour Organization Convention, also known as ILO Convention 169, or C169.It is the major binding international convention concerning Indigenous peoples and tribal peoples, and a forerunner of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.