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Historical antecedents and their contemporary significance: Greg Marks,indigenous peoples in international law - the significance of Francisco deVitoria and Bartolome de las Casas; Douglas Sanders, the re-emergence ofindigenous questions in international law. The argument for recognition ofindigenous sovereignty on the basis of established modern principles: DarleneM. Johnston, the quest of the Six Nations Confederacy for self-determination;John Howard Clinebell, Jim Thomson, sovereignty and self-determination - therights of native Americans under international law. The dynamics andchallenges of the contemporary international indigenous rights movement:Robert A. Williams, Jr, encounters on the frontiers of international humanrights law - redefining the terms of indigenous peoples' survival in theworld; Benedict Kingsbury, 'indigenous peoples' in international law - aconstructivist approach to the Asian controversy. The emergence and contoursof a new indigenous rights regime: Siegfried Wiessner, the rights ofindigenous peoples - a global and comparative international legal analysis;Lee Swepston, a new step in the international law on indigenous and tribalpeoples - ILO Convention Number 169 of 1989; Erica-Irene Daes, someconsiderations on the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination.Invoking the contemporary indigenous rights regime - two examples: GillianTriggs, Australia's indigenous peoples and international law - validity ofthe Native Title Amendment Act 1998; S. James Anaya, the native Hawaiianpeople and international human rights law - toward a remedy for past andcontinuing wrongs.