International Seminar: Indigenous Rights, Identity and Tourism
5.6.2006 9:00
Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Sami Research Office welcomes you to participate the International Seminar titled ‘Indigenous Rights, Identity and Tourism’ in Rovaniemi, Arktikum building Aurora lecture room on the 8th and 9th of June 2006
The seminar on Indigenous issues will explore Indigenous rights in relation to national policymaking and research. A number of points can be made here, leading to many questions that we have to ask and try to give answers to.
This seminar is about Indigenous peoples and their rights. The seminar is also about identity, culture and tourism. It is about the challenges Indigenous people meet when they work to strengthen their rights to be Indigenous in accordance with their traditions and ways. The seminar will also address the challenges that policy-makers and researchers encounter when they are in the field or in the meeting rooms exploring Indigenous themes.
Historically, Indigenous peoples have been subjected to diverse policies with the aim to integrate them into mainstream societies. Regardless of and due to their history, Indigenous peoples have displayed a shared ethnic and political core. They strive for the autonomy of legal, cultural, environmental and political spheres. We can now see changed attitudes and increased knowledge concerning the Indigenous peoples and their rights and culture. Indigenous representatives are within many areas able to participate in political activities, legislative work, and overall life issues of modern Indigenous societies. But there is not yet equality between the different participants of policy-making, rights standards, and research regarding Indigenous issues. In fact, many Indigenous groups and persons are still subjected to injustice.
The seminar is arranged by the Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Sami Research Office in co-operation with MII-Sami Association in Rovaniemi and Snowchange organization in Joensuu.
For more information about the seminar, please contact:
Dr. Elina Helander-Renvall
Phone: 040 843 4723
Email: firstname.lastname@ulapland.fi
For more information about seminar arrangements, please contact:
Raija Kivilahti, Arctic Centre Information and Congress Secretary
Phone: 040 568 4890
Email: firstname.lastname@ulapland.fi
Program
June 8th, Rights and culture
9.00-9.30 Opening
Chair: Prof. Timo Koivurova, PYVI, Arctic Centre
Governor Hannele Pokka, County of Lapland
President Pekka Aikio, Sami Parliament, Sápmi, Finland
9.30-11.00
Judge Steven L. Point, Chief Commissioner, British Columbian Treaty Process
The History of Aboriginal rights in Canada, and Treaty Making in British Columbia
Coffee
11.00-12.30
Vice President Anne Nuorgam, Sami Parliament
Sami rights in Finland
12.30-13.30 Lunch hosted by the University of Lapland
13.30-14.30
Ass. Prof. Robert Wheelersburg, Elisabethtown college, USA
Indigenous resource use rights in Sweden
14.30-15.30
LL. Lic. Juha Joona, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Historical land rights in Finnish Lapland
15.30-16.00
Coffee
16.00-17.30
Ph.D.-candidate Nils-Johan Päiviö, Nordic Sami Institute
The Development of Sami Rights in Sweden
17.30-18.00 Ph.D.-candidate Leena Heinämäki, PYVI, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
To what extent does international law protect the environmental rights of indigenous peoples?
18.30-19.00
Discussion
20.00 Reception hosted by the city of Rovaniemi,
Mayor Mauri Gardin at the city hall, Hallituskatu 7
June 9th, Tourism, identity and knowledge
Chair: Dr. Keith Battarbee, Department of English, NACS, University of Oulu
9.00-10.00
Dr. Michael Ireland, College of St. Mark & St John, Plymouth
In the conscience black and white? Experiencing cultural identity and ties of kinship through the photographic image in a Cornish fishing village.
10.00-11.00
Prof. Seija Tuulentie, METLA
Local community development and tourism in Finnish Lapland
11.00-12.00
Dr. Anni-Siiri Länsman, University of Oulu
Guest-relations between tourists and Sami people in Finnish Sápmi
12.00-12.30
Discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch hosted by the University of Lapland
Chair: MII-Sami Association, Rovaniemi
13.30-14.30
Dr. Gwen Point, University College of Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia
Stó:lo Spirituality, Language & Culture in Education Today
14.30-15.00
Dr. Elina Helander-Renvall
Sami and Indigenous Research at the University of Lapland
15.00-15.30
Coffee
15.30-16.00
Ph.D.-canditate Tero Mustonen, Snowchange, University of Joensuu
Perspectives on Re-traditionalisation of Traditional Knowledge in Northern Communities: Experience from Siberia, North Karelia and Russian Karelia
Chair: Tanja Joona , Arktis, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
16.00-18.00 Project presentations, research ideas, discussion:
Dr. Michael Ireland, Sustainable tourism in the Altai Region of Western Siberia
Pro-gradu student Outi Rantala, Culture and tourism, University of Lapland
Ph.D.-candidate Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, Womens´ studies, University of Lapland
Pro-gradu student Sanna Paala. University of Lapland
Pro-gradu student Piia Nuorgam, University of Lapland
Ph.D.-candidate Mika Flöjt, PYVI, University of Lapland
Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossman, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland:
Globalization in the Russian North
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