Indigenous rights and international law : an introduction / Elvira Pulitano -- Indigenous self-determination, culture, and land : a reassessment in light of the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Siegfried Wiessner -- Treaties, peoplehood, and self-determination : understanding the language of indigenous rights / Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff -- Talking up indigenous peoples' original intent in a space dominated by state interventions / Irene Watson and Sharon Venne -- Australia's Northern Territory intervention and indigenous rights on language, education and culture : an ethnocidal solution to Aboriginal "dysfunction"? / Sheila Collingwood-Whittick -- Articulating indigenous statehood : Cherokee state formation and implications for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Clint Carroll -- The freedom to pass and repass : can the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples keep the US-Canadian border ten feet above our heads? / Carrie E. Garrow -- Traditional responsibility and spiritual relatives : protection of indigenous rights to land and sacred places / Kathleen J. Martin -- Seeking the corn mother : transnational indigenous organizing and food sovereignty in native North American literature / Jani Adamson -- "Use and control" : issues of repatriation and redress in American Indian literature / Lee Schweninger -- Contested ground : ʻāina, identity, and nationhood in Hawaii / Ku'ualoaha Ho'omanawanui -- Kānāwai, international law, and the discourse of indigenous justice : some reflections on the Peoples' International Tribunal in Hawaii / Afterword: Implementing the Declaration / Mililani B. Trask