Abstract
Indigenous peoples share a common claim for repatriation of their cultural property worldwide. This became obvious in 1993, the United Nations (UN) International Year for the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Nine Māori tribes convened the First International Conference on the Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Over 150 indigenous delegates from 14 countries attended, including indigenous representatives from Japan, Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Surinam, the United States, and New Zealand. The Conference met over 6 days and passed the Mataatua Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The recommendations of the Declaration stipulate:
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Mataatua Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights (Whakatana, 12–18 June 1993). On the Declaration, see H.M Mead, ‘Mataatua Declaration and the case of the carved meeting house Mataatua’ (1995) U.B.C. Law Review, Special edition, pp. 69–75.
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Dale Anne Sherman, cited by Ferdinand Protzman, ‘Justice delayed’, ARTnews (1998), at p. 138.
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Institute on Mesoamerican History and Culture, University of Oregon-Eugene, ‘Quest for the Maya Codex. Repatriation of Cultural Objects’ (2008), available at http://www.lakelandschools.us/lh/bgriffin/Library/mesoam.htm.
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Gordon Pullar, ‘The Qikertarmiut and the scientist: Fifty years of clashing world views’ (1995) U.B.C. Law Review, Special edition, pp. 119–135, at p. 123.
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For such scholarship, see, for example, Christoph B. Graber and Mira Burri-Nenova (eds), Intellectual property and traditional cultural expressions in a digital environment, Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, 2008, and Michael F. Brown’s endorsement quote on the jacket cover.
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On the term ‘western’, see infra Sect. 2.3.3.
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Linda T. Smith, Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples, London: Zed Books, 2006; Norman K. Denzin, et al. (eds), Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies, Los Angeles: SAGE, 2008; and Laurelyn Whitt, Science, colonialism, and indigenous peoples: The cultural politics of law and knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Kuprecht, K. (2014). Introduction. In: Indigenous Peoples' Cultural Property Claims. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01655-9_1
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