Political Science 3388E Lecture : Group Rights and Indigenous People's

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 3388E
• Professor: Jennifer Mustapha

Document Summary

It is inherently a minority if there are more indigenous than others they are a minority and not considered indigenous. Why do they merit special attention? y make up some of the most vulnerable and marginalized populations in the world y connection to the land that they have y. Indigenous people overwhelmingly associated everything they are to the land on which they live y denied personhood/humanity since the 15th century y y: right to existence. Indigenous people have long been denied the sovereign status within states. Individual human rights are not adequate to protect the group rights of the indigenous. Genocide convention: acts committed in an attempt to destroy a racial or cultural group, has to be through violence action. Cultural genocide: right to self determination. But not succession salt water thesis, the rights to sovereign lands only apply to non-north americans: individual human rights.