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44 Ariz. St. L.J. 653 (2012)
The Landscape and Language of Indigenous Cultural Rights

handle is hein.journals/arzjl44 and id is 669 raw text is: THE LANDSCAPE AND LANGUAGE OF
INDIGENOUS CULTURAL RIGHTS
Erin M. Genia*
This paper aims to be a useful guide to understanding the
landscape and language of indigenous cultural rights. By
providing the reader with information on the imperative and
complex issues that surround restoring, revitalizing and
preserving cultural resources, this paper reveals the specific
language associated with cultural rights, as well as a
landscape of issues to explore. It attempts to answer the
questions, How do tribes define cultural rights? Why are
tribal cultural rights in need of protection? and, What is
being done to protect them? In order to truly understand
how to protect indigenous peoples' cultural rights and why it
is so critical an issue, it is necessary to define key terms,
provide a historical context, and identify the many ways in
which cultural rights are threatened With a focus on
solutions for preventing the continued cultural exploitation
of indigenous people, this paper will address what activities
tribes, intertribal organizations, international bodies, and
U.S. laws are engaging in to ensure that Native peoples'
cultures thrive.
* Erin Genia, MPA, is a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, and descended from
the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa. She was born in Tempe, Arizona while her mother
was a student at Arizona State University. Her father is from the Lake Traverse Reservation in
South Dakota, and Erin grew up there and in New York. She is a visual artist and a community
organizer and works as the Assistant Director of the Master in Public Administration-Tribal
Governance concentration at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

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