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Andrys Onsman opens this insightful discussion on international Indigenous identity with an examination of the current indigenous identity literature and policy discussions internationally and domestically. The common threads are through ancestry, through occupations of ancestral domains and through the continuity of recognizable cultural distinction. These are the criteria that the lawyers, politicians and economists demand of indigenes and subsequently of indigeneity. He brings his discussion home with a personal yet widely significant discussion of the indigenous identity of the Fresian people who have for time immemorial resided in Northwestern Europe..This book is bound to create discussion and perhaps even argument. There needs to be no apology for that. At the end of the Decade for Indigenous Peoples we ought to be a lot clearer than we actually are about who it is that we are celebrating. This book will, at the very least, frame the questions that need to be asked. Dr. Nigel Parbury, President, Aboriginal Studies Association, Australia
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