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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Aboriginal Nations, the Australian nation-state and Indigenous international legal traditions
• The world(s), the Dreaming(s) and the apocalypse(s)
• Aboriginal Nations of ‘Australia’ and an international legal tradition
• Conclusion
• 2. Domination in relation to Indigenous (‘dominated’) Peoples in international law
• Metaphors of domination and international law
• Dominated peoples and international law
• Indigenous Peoples are not part of an ‘objective’ physical reality
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous (‘dominated’) Peoples
• An aspiration to end the domination
• Imperial states and original nations
• Does the domination of Indigenous Peoples by states violate their rights?
• Conclusion
• 3. The ‘natural’ law of nations: society and the exclusion of First Nations as subjects of international law
• Introduction
• The natural law context of the ‘law of nations’
• The Eurocentric concept of society
• Society and the nature of sovereignty
• International society and the ‘law of nations’
• Just wars: in the interests of ‘human society’
• Conclusion
• 4. Long before Munich: the American template for Hitlerian diplomacy
• The US progenitor
• Now, as regards those treaties
• Before the court of history
• Marking a path
• 5. First Nations, Indigenous Peoples: our laws have always been here
• Introduction
• Kaldowinyeri, that is the law
• We are the mainstream
• Recognition – but the state cannot see the laws and bodies of First Nations
• We know our own names and who we are
• Conclusion: why not get over it and assimilate?
• 6. Law and politics of Indigenous self-determination: the meaning of the right to prior consultation
• Introduction
• Indigenous self-determination and the inclusion–exclusion paradox
• Prior consultation: between inclusion and exclusion
• Critiques of the Prior Consultation Law
• Prior to prior consultation: territorial rights and the politics of Indigenous self-determination
• Conclusion
• 7. How governments manufacture consent and use it against Indigenous Peoples
• Introduction
• Canada and ‘real transparency’
• ‘World conference’ (so-called)
• Conclusion
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• 8. ‘Kill the Indian in the child’: genocide in international law
• Introduction
• Peace and friendship in international law
• Colonial framework
• Drafting of the crime of genocide
• Genocide Convention
• Child welfare system
• Moving beyond colonialism
• Bibliography
• Index