Indigenous peoples -- Legal status laws etc., Ethnoscience, Eurocentrism, Indigenous knowledge, Cultural Heritage, Cultural property, Intellectual property, Decolonization 

"The approximately 500 million Indigenous peoples of the world live in Canada, the United States, Australia, India, Peru, or Russia, they have faced a similar fate at the hands of colonizing powers. That fate has included assaults on their language and culture, commercialization of their art, and use of their plant knowledge in the development of medicine, all without consent, acknowledgement or benefit to them. The authors paint a passionate picture of the devastation this assault has wrought on Indigenous peoples. They illustrate why current legal regimes are inadequate to protect Indigenous knowledge and put forward ideas for reform. The book looks at the issues from an international perspective and explores developments in various countries including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the work of the United Nations, as well as relevant international agreements."--Amazon.ca. 

viii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. 

Contents:
Pt. 1. The lodge of indigenous knowledge in modern thought. Eurocentrism and the European ethnographic tradition. What is indigenous knowledge?
Pt. 2. Towards an understanding of the rights of indigenous peoples to their knowledge and heritage. The concept of indigenous heritage rights. The importance of language for indigenous knowledge. Decolonizing cognitive imperialism in education. Religious paradoxes. Paradigmatic thought in Eurocentric science. Ethical issues in research. Indigenous heritage and Eurocentric intellectual and cultural property rights
Pt. 3. Existing legal regimes and indigenous knowledge and heritage. The international intellectual and cultural property regime. The Canadian constitutional regime. The Canadian legislative regime
Pt. 4. The need for legal and policy reforms to protect indigenous knowledge and heritage. Rethinking intellectual and cultural property. Current international reforms. Enhancing indigenous knowledge and heritage in national law. Canadian policy considerations
Conclusion.