ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines how Indigenous rights create structural change. The Indigenous rights movement is grounded in a particular set of transnational Indigenous ways of being that encapsulate shared values and diplomatic traditions of Indigenous peoples worldwide. The book introduces the concept of selective endorsement and argues that by endorsing the Indigenous rights declaration with important qualifications and exclusions, the CANZUS settler colonial states are actually engaging in a nuanced pattern of resistance to the changes being forged by global Indigenous politics. It explains how and why states might over-comply with Indigenous rights through comparative case studies of Indigenous rights over compliance in two countries: New Zealand and Canada. The book concludes that global Indigenous politics is pushing the international community in a new direction, toward a vision of self-determination, territoriality, and sovereignty that appears to be a new vision of the post-colonial.
