Strategies of Survival Indigenous Peoples’ activism –1945 United Nations shift on human rights –1966 International Covenant on Human Rights –1975 World Council of Indigenous Peoples –2007 Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) New support groups: CS, IWGIA, SI Agenda –Basic human rights –Self-determination –End to policies of genocide, ethnocide –Cultural protection: traditional law, language, relation to resources

Strategies of Survival, cont. Tactics –Internet sites –Media manipulation –Alliances with environmental groups, other indigenous peoples –Establishment of reserves (moving) –Co-management of resources –Small-scale economic development (e.g., ecotourism) –Assertion of political power –Resistance “weapons of weak” insurgencies