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This book investigates the discursive and performative strategies employed by Australian Indigenous rappers to make sense of the world and establish a position of authority over their identity and place in society.

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This book offers an Indigenous supplement to the rich and growing area of visual legal scholarship. Organized around three narratives, each with an associated politico-poetic reading, the book addresses three major global issues: climate change, the trade in human body parts and bio-policing.

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Traditional agricultural systems are extremely important for sustaining livelihoods,maintaining rural communities,preserving knowledge,and protecting fragile landscapes and agrobiodiversity. This knowledge offers examples of high resilience and precious agroecological techniques that can help agriculture adapt to ever-changing social, environmental and economic conditions.

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Drawing on both Maori and Western philosophies, this book demonstrates how the metaphysics of presence is both related and opposed to the indigenous notion of worldedness.

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Training Materials
Six (6) Guidelines for Projects Involving Traditional Indigeneous Knowledge

2018

Author(s): Indigenous Corporate Training

In 2018 the federal government proposed a replacement for the Environmental Assessment Act, that, if assented to should increase the incorporation of TK in the environmental assessment process. The proposed Impact Assessment Act, will “show how a proposed project could affect the environment, health, society, and the economy, as well how the development would impact Indigenous people over the long term.”

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In this video Ms Denise Hagan speaks on the multi-generational poverty and disadvantage faced by a remote Aboriginal community in Cape York, Australia.

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Opinions/Videos
Honoring Indigenous Cultures and Histories

2018

Author(s): Fish J

In this powerful account, psychology PhD candidate Ms Jill Fish tells her story growing up as a Tuscarora woman in a world that fails to accurately acknowledge indigenous peoples’ cultures and histories.

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Indigenous Communities are on the Front Lines of Climate Change

2018

Author(s): Hot Mess

As the world figures out how to live with a rapidly changing climate, traditional knowledge from indigenous cultures could help us understand just how things are transforming.

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WIPO Good Practice Toolkit for CMOs (The Toolkit)

2018

Author(s): World Intellectual Property Organization

Collective Management Organizations (CMOs) typically exist in a situation where it would be impossible or impractical for owners of copyright and related rights to manage their rights directly, and where it is to their advantage that the licensing of the rights that they own or represent be aggregated with a CMO.

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Architectural Principles from an Indigenous Perspective

2018

Author(s): Cardinal D

If we incorporate these Indigenous architectural principles into our built environments, those environments then have the potential to nurture our societies. Why not create environments which teach us to respect one-another in this way? This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.