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Article: Protecting indigenous peoples.(The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity)(Indigenous Peoples and the State: The Struggle for Native Rights)(Book review)
- Article from:
- Human Rights & Human Welfare
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity by Ronald Niezen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 272pp.
Indigenous Peoples and the State: The Struggle for Native Rights by Bradley Reed Howard. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. 252pp.
Recent decades have witnessed an increased interest on the part of historians, social scientists and legal scholars in the human rights and welfare of indigenous peoples. Ronald Niezen, an anthropologist, and Bradley Reed Howard, an anthropologist/lawyer, share this concern. They have each contributed excellent studies describing indigenous struggles for group or ...