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Introduction,t more than two decades in the making. Though its genealogy is complicated, the origins of the Declaration can be traced at least to the 1982 founding of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP) through the UN Economic and Social Council. The process was, by any measure, a slow one. Even a

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Forgetting, Remembering, and Finding Indigenous Peoples in International Relations,l and contemporary diplomatic practices both in themselves and as grist for the conceptual mill. It seems somewhat counterintuitive, then, that Indigenous diplomacies would not figure prominently in International Relations, even if only as a counterpoint to the state-centrism of conventional treatme

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,A “Revolution within a Revolution”,mpetus for change behind this Mayan political and cultural movement that was hidden from the headlines: the women. As Vinding (1998, 12) notes, Indigenous women have been “underrepresented in Indigenous organizations and are seldom heard in international fora.” Although women’s rights and Indigenous

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Achievements of Indigenous Self-Determination,eople whose traditional territories have been divided between the four nation-states of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Despite this fragmentation (and Russia notwithstanding), Sami in the Nordic countries have achieved an extremely high level of political organization. They have also been very

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Coming in from the Cold,cs over the last forty years contradicts these early stereotypes. Inuit have been strong partners in an international movement to create a stable and equitable political regime in the circumpolar world. Beginning in the 1970s, Canadian Inuit made common cause with Inuit of Alaska and Greenland, form

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Aboriginal Diplomacy,vernment policy initiatives, and within this paradigm Native people have been seen principally as reacting to agendas set in Ottawa (see, for example, Dickason 1992; Miller 1989; Ray 1999). In western Canada, where British sovereignty was proclaimed much later than it was in the central and eastern