Traditional Resource Rights in the New Millennium
Conference information
Conference primer (including details on key terms, international legal instruments, national legislation, investor-related policy, background on forestry and mining in BC)
Speaker abstracts and backgrounds
Conference and background papers
1. Discussion paper on Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property: Scoping the Definitions and Issues
Dr. Eber Hampton (President, Saskatchewan Indian Federated College)
Sakej Henderson (Director, Native Law Centre of Canada)
Not available on the web. Please contact the following for availability:
Research and Analysis Directorate
Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
Suite 510
10 Wellington Street
Hull, Quebec K1A 0H4
2. Intellectual Property and Aboriginal People: A Working Paper (link)
Contractors: Simon Brascoupé (Aboriginal consultant, artist and university lecturer) and Karin Endemann (President, Keystone International)
Editors: Michael Cassidy (President, Ginger Group Consultants) and Jock Langford (Senior Policy Officer, Intellectual Property Policy Directorate, Industry Canada)
3. Aboriginal Rights to Cultural Property in Canada
Catherine Bell (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta) and Robert K. Paterson (Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia)
Not available on the web. Please view the following:
International Journal of Cultural Property
Volume 8, No. 1, 1999. pp. 167-211
4. Aboriginal Custom, Copyright and the Canadian Constitution (PDF)
David Robbins (Woodward & Company, Victoria BC)
5. An Economic Strategy to Develop Non-Timber Forest Products and Services in British Columbia (link)
Russel M. Wills and Richard G. Lipsey (Cognetics International Research, Bowen Island, BC)
Indigenous Peoples and the Use of Intellectual Property Rights in Canada: Case Studies Relating to Intellectual Property Rights and The Protection of Biodiversity (link)
Howard Mann (International and Environmental Law and Policy, Ottawa, Ontario)
Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Resource Rights: A Basis for Equitable Relationships (PDF)
Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
The “Balance Sheet” and the “Sacred Balance”: Valuing the Knowledge of Indigenous and Traditional Peoples (PDF)
Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
Mind the Gaps: Identifying Commonalities and Divergences between Indigenous Peoples and Farmer Groups (PDF)
Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (PDF)
Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
Biodiversity, Genetic Resources and Indigenous Peoples in Amazonia: (Re)Discovering the Wealth of Traditional Resources of Native Amazonians (PDF)
Dr. Darrell Addison Posey (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of Oxford)
By Design: The Protection of Intellectual and Creative Rights (PDF)
Lou-Ann Neel and Dianne Biin (Consortium of Indigenous Arts, Victoria BC)
Sacred Balance (PDF)
Aroha Te Pareake Mead (Foreign Policy Convenor & Deputy Convenor, Maori Congress, AOTEAROA, New Zealand)
Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific (PDF)
Aroha Te Pareake Mead (Foreign Policy Convenor & Deputy Convenor, Maori Congress, AOTEAROA, New Zealand)
A Brief History on the Convention on Biological Diversity (PDF)
Fred Fortier (Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, Kamloops, BC)
International Human Rights Overview: Basic Information and Legal Provisions (PDF)
Shelley Wright (Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
Our Culture: Our Future – Report on Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights (PDF)
Terri Janke (Michael Frankel & Company, Melbourne, Australia)
The Proper Role of Technology in the Determination of Cultural Affiliation (PDF)
Brett Lee Shelton (Indigenous Peoples Council of Biocolonialism, Nixon, Nevada), Jhon Goes In Centre (Native Spatial Information, Masonville, Colorado), Bryan A. Marozas (Native Mapping Consultant, Edgewood, New Mexico)