Proposed Nordic Saami Convention

Nigel Bankes is a Professor of Law at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada where he holds the chair in natural resources law.Timo Koivurova is a research Professor and Director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (Arctic Centre/University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland).

...a significant contribution to our understanding of this area of property rights and offers an enlightening vision of how a resolution might look in one area of the world comprising northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Federation...The editors and the publisher ought to be rightfully proud of this book...[It] makes an important contribution to understanding Indigenous peoples’ property rights and human rights in respect of lands and resources. It is an impressive contribution to the rapidly growing discipline of Indigenous peoples’ rights – including human rights – to lands and waters. Much of the work in this book is applicable to all settler States. It deserves to be widely read and considered.

• Introduction Nigel Bankes and Timo KoivurovaPART ONE: DOCTRINAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS1. Recognising the Property Interests of Indigenous Peoples within Settler Societies: Some Different Conceptual Approaches Nigel Bankes2. Acknowledging and Accommodating Legal Pluralism: An Application to the Draft Nordic Saami Convention Jonnette Watson Hamilton3. The Public-Law Dimension of Indigenous Property Rights Jeremy WebberPART TWO: THE PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW DIMENSIONS OF THE DRAFT NORDIC SAAMI CONVENTION4. Can Saami Transnational Indigenous Peoples Exercise Their Self-Determination in a World of Sovereign States? Timo Koivurova5. The Nordic Saami Convention: The Right of a People to Control Issues of Importance to Them Leena Heinämäki6. Cross-Border Reindeer Husbandry: Between Ancient Usage Rights and State Sovereignty Else Grete BroderstadPART THREE: SAAMI LAND AND REINDEER-GRAZING RIGHTS IN THE THREE NORDIC STATES7. The Draft Nordic Saami Convention and the Assessment of Evidence of Saami Use of Land Øyvind Ravna8. Who Holds the Reindeer-herding Right in Sweden? A Key Issue in Legislation Christina Allard9. The Draft Nordic Saami Convention and the Indigenous Population in Finland Juha Joona10. The Subjects of the Draft Nordic Saami Convention Tanja Joona11. On Customary Law Among the Saami People Elina Helander-RenvallPART FOUR: THE RECOGNITION OF INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS12. The Achuar People in Ecuador: Towards Territorial and Political Autonomy Verónica Potes13. The Australian Approach to Recognising the Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) Sharon Mascher14. The Forms of Recognition of Indigenous Property Rights in Settler States: Modern Land Claim Agreementsin Canada Nigel Bankes15. The Nordic Saami Convention and the Rights of Saami Women: Lessons from Canada Jennifer KoshanConclusion Nigel Bankes and Timo Koivurova