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The ‘Right to Equality’ and the ‘Right to be Different’ with
Respect to the Indigenous Peoples Rights Movement
Amjad Nazeer
University of Tromso, Norway
November 2011
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The ‘Right to Equality’ and the ‘Right to be Different’ with Respect to the
Indigenous Peoples Rights Movement
I. Introduction:
Overtly and covertly UDHR1 does acknowledge the difference and equality while
saying, “all human beings are born free and ‘equal’ in dignity and rights....they...should
act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood...and...no distinction shall be made
on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or
territory to which a person belongs. However, it relies heavily on the liberal
foundations of individual sovereignty and claims an outright universality. Both the
propositions were vehemently challenged by the American Anthropological
Associations’2 statement on human rights in 1948. Contemporary debate around
equality and the right to be different echoes back several issues with reference to the
indigenous peoples (IPs).
Without acknowledging difference - be it religious, racial, gender, age, social standing
or of sexual orientation - extending human rights, even within the liberal philosophical
foundations, is impossible. Beyond the individualistic premises, the idea of collective
equality and difference is immensely complicated as misperceiving or mistreating it
might lead to perilous political implications. Nowhere else this complication is amply
demonstrated as in the case of asserting collective rights for the indigenous peoples.
The very argument is pitting indigenous peoples against national governments,
individuals against the indigenous authorities, customary laws against national
legislation and international human rights law against the nation-states. It also
challenges the tendency of enforcing colonial legacies in the name of citizen’s equality
and human rights, as certain states appear to do. Be it individual or collective rights
therefore, it is the role of nation-states that also needs a closer scrutiny.
1 Universal Declaration of Human Right (1948) 2 The Anthropology of Human Rights: Sally Engle Merry, Department of Anthropology, Spring 2006
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Indigenous peoples’ right to equality and difference, like the very notion of indigeneity,
opens up a philosophical quagmire as the term invariably refers to a group or a
collectivity. While the anthropological controversy of adequacy and adoption or
rejection of the term indigenous is still hot, the issue of indigenous peoples’ right to be
collectively different and struggle for equality moves one step forward in a
constructivist direction. Indigenous people’s qualification for distinction and equality –
at times referred to as special rights - can also be reflected in the views of Kenrick-
Lewis-Theun-Suagestad and others’ verses Kuper-Bernard-Suzan and others’ camp,
keeping their internal stresses and subtleties apart. The entire discussion cannot be
confined around their views only but they constitute a best metaphor to demonstrate
the crux of the whole debate.
No straightjacket rule is there to resolve the issue. However there are certain arguments
and principles that I am going to present here in support of the indigenous peoples’
right to equality and maintaining a collective distinction simultaneously.
II. How and Why Indigenous Peoples are Different Peoples:
Indigenous peoples’ distinctiveness, particularly in comparison with the highly
individualistic, capitalistic and commdificatory societies and states is beyond doubt.
Their worldview of day and night, life and death, social consciousness and
cosmological existence is entirely different from the dominant settler-states and
political societies they live in. Contrary to the calculus minded western society,
indigenous people live in rhythm with nature and all its’ species. In Jack Beetson’s3
(2006) distinguished views, aborigines are one with their dusts and sands, lands and
waters and, winds and wilderness like their agnates, cognates and ancestral folks. In
totems, they see their sights and spirits; in atmosphere they hear their forefathers talk
and move. Their relationship with their community and its’ surroundings is based on
love and mutual respect, where generosity, trust, sharing traditional knowledge and
collective good remains at the heart of their lives. No objectification, it is all the
attitude and relationship with the place they live in. Precisely, they live in spiritual and
symbiotic unity with their environment.
3 Jack Beetson was declared as an Aboriginal Teacher and the Unsung Hero of Dialogue in 2001. The reference is quoted form the transcription of his oral talk in Cape Town, South Africa on (1-2, June 2006)
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A universally accepted definition of indigenous people as: defining themselves and
acknowledged by others as indigenous; continuity of descent from pre-colonial and
pre-settler invasion; a profound connection with their land and natural resources with a
separate socio-economic and political system of governance; a different language,
culture and belief system and lastly, historical oppression, discrimination, and
marginalization, also embrace their multidimensional distinction (UNPFIS: 2008). The
very characteristics impart them, neither superior nor inferior, rather a uniquely
distinctive status amongst other peoples.
For instance, Maoris’ symbiotic linkage with land, lineage and legend constitutes the
core of their identity. Maoriness, Awatere insists (as cited in Dominy, M.D.1990:250),
intertwines peoples’ affinity to their land and common ancestry with in-depth social
and emotional significance contradicting capitalist-imperialism that underpins
objectification, racism and sexism. It is a colonial and capitalist illusion, plagued with
individualism and private property that separates ‘man’ from ‘nature’ while indigenous
people are just part of it.
III. Debating Difference vs. Equality: Nature and Scope of the Present
Debate:
Two of the major covenants on economic-social and civil-political rights (1966) are
embedded into the liberal-political tradition of individual rights and freedoms against
the state4. Cultural rights in the former category refer to one’s right to education, arts
and scientific thought rather than a right to collectivity, clearly reflecting western
ethnocentricism, individuality and liberalism. It seems intentionally avoiding the
cultural aspects of rights (Gledhill 1997: 72) denying the very truth of cultural relativity.
The current landscape of human rights is immersed in the tripartite framework of
human rights, collective rights and the rights of indigenous peoples. Certain rights, such
as the right to protect and promote one’s language, religion, culture and the
relationship with land essentially make sense in a framework of collective rights
(Bowen 2000: 12). Collective rights do not necessarily imply the rights of indigenous
4 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Interantional Covenanta on Economic Social Rights, , Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, See: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm
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peoples only, but it is the right of indigenous peoples which is idiosyncratic in its
entirety.
The right came on the agenda of international human rights after a prolonged struggle
of indigenous peoples and their advocates. Contrary to the common perceptions,
collective rights are equally potential to protect individual rights, as they might
sometimes harm them. State reservations, that we usually observe around, are less on
the grounds of protecting individual rights, more to subjugate, forcibly acculturate and
assimilate their differences (Thompson: 1997:788). In Kymlicka’s (2001) words: “ to
assume that any culture is inherently illiberal and incapable of reforms, is ethnocentric
and aristocratical. Moreover the liberty of a culture is a matter of degree. All cultures
have illiberal strands, just as few cultures are entirely suppressive of individual liberty.
Indeed it is quite misleading to talk of, “ liberal” and “ illiberal” cultures, as if the world
was divided into the completely liberal societies on one hand, and completely illiberal
ones on the other. The task of liberal reforms remains incomplete in every society, and
it would be ludicrous to say that only purely liberal nations should be respected, while
others should be assimilated” . Save the nation-states, which identified its
incompatibility to their context and others who abstained, it is only America, Australia,
Canada and New Zealand that categorically rejected the Draft Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DDRIP 2007) – an outcome of more than 30 years’ effort
within the UN system. Indigenous peoples’ distinctiveness, their constant resistance to
forced assimilation and reclaiming their lands, rivers, forests and hunting abodes – as
persistently demanded by the indigenous people - obviously are the reasons what
several states are threatened off (Merlan 2009: 316). But for the IPs thinking of identity
and distinctiveness is impossible without their thousands years old relationship with
their land environment. It is a matter of their identity, equally important to their
survival.
An elaborate ideological superstructure was invented by the settler colonies to justify
occupancy and exploitation of indigenous territories and their wealth. Puritanism,
God’s commandment and social-Darwinism were brought to service sanctifying their
atrocities and occupation of land. Even the most famous liberalists such as John Locke,
Rousseau, John Winthrop and Blackstone failed to see injustices in the invasion and
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occupation of indigenous lands. In his Social Contract, for instance, Rousseau argued
that possession is not a ceremonial affair but establishing proprietorship by labour and
cultivation and standardising soil, like gold, as a property of exchange is essential
feature of ownership. John Locke strengthened the rule of terra nullis in his Treaties on
Government and the process of setting-up New England colonies in North America. To
him, American-Indians only had a right to the animals they hunted, nothing more. Self-
proclaimed ‘civilization’ and ‘social evolutionism’ made the seizure, adulterations and
confiscation of indigenous lands a universal law and common justification, but in
reality, all through brutal and undignified governmental and corporate tactics.
Analogous to ‘orientalism’, as identified by Edward Said, another discourse of
‘primitivism’ was invented by the west profoundly affecting the indigenous
consciousness of the ‘self’ as the subject and as people. The notion of ‘primitivism’ was
additionally, laden with ‘evolutionary’ narratives to legitimize the ‘control’ of settler-
nations upon the ‘under-evolved uncivilized’ people on earth. It provided their
subjects5 with an ‘authoritative discourse’ of their personhood, nature and essential
mentalities of subordinations, causing serious difficulty to think otherwise (Sissons
2005: 146-147).
As a result of deeply entrenched processes, a sense of loss, deprivation, erosion of
identity, illness, alcoholism and dependency are becoming common symptoms of their
lives. Tanzanian Hadz, Innu of Canada and the Ainu of Hokkaidu, Sakhalin, and Kurile
Islands – earlier colonized by Japan and Russia are just a few examples of terrible
sufferings of the natives, along with the Maoris of New Zealand, Bushmen of southern
Africa, and aborigines of Australia, Canada and America. Pitifully enough, they have to
petition for the right to their own land and their own way of life to the governing
authorities. Directly or indirectly, they are being drifted towards a western
monoculture. Overly globalized, commercialized and despotic appropriation of their
resources is minimizing their chances of claims to their land and distinctive identities.
Unfortunately, their number too is dwindling in most of the countries save in Zapatista-
Mexico and Bolivia (Samson 2008) where they are in a rare majority. The historical
5 For instance, the disdainful behaviour of the Vice President of Botswana in 1996 about the San aptly reflects the evolutionary discourse and colonial master’s subjectivity built through: ‘How can you have a stone age creature continue to exist in the age of computers? They must change or otherwise like the dodo, they will perish (Qouted by Festus, G. Moga as cited by Jennifer Hays 2000:27, Anguished laments...UFAHAMU, Number II-III)
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oppression, dispossession and discrimination still continue in several states denying
them the rights enjoyed by other national populations. Loaded with majoritarian
ascriptions of ‘primordiality’ and ‘inferiority,’ the very difference of culture has turned
into an excuse for abuse (Kenrick & Lewis 2004: 4).
One of the most painful examples of ‘otherization’ are the San people of southern
Africa. Despite intensive multidisciplinary research and wider recognition, they have
been deprived of their centuries-old habitat where they lived in harmony with wildlife.
Rather than respecting difference, they are identified as pre-existing, survivors and
backwards all reflecting a sense of inferiority. In fact, they are the victim of contact –
than by isolation - and characterization with the modern capitalist economy turning
them into a prototype of human rights abuses. They are also the victim of multiple
identities, categorizations and discourses by outsiders – academicians inclusive.
Imposing them to be a spatialized cultural category rather than accommodating a
difference relegated them as an inferior desert people (Gupta & Ferguson cited in Preis
1996: 341-342) whose claim equality is an unsubstantiated demand.
IV. Gender Inequalities and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights:
Beyond international legal provisions, argues Kuokkanen (2008:127-135), the current
demands for autonomy obscure women’s voices and internal inequalities of indigenous
communities. While the fact is, without taking women’s concerns into account and
their demands for equality, claims to indigenous people’s right will not move beyond
rhetoric. Aggravating the problem, neo-liberal economy and market-globalization
proves adversarial to women’s status within and collective indigenous rights to equality
amongst peoples. Hands in glove with states, global capitalist forces devour and
devastate indigenous people’s resources. Maintaining women’s subordination, she
asserts, any form of indigenous right to equality is bound to reproduce traditional
hierarchical and colonial structures. But that too can be dealt in negotiation with the
indigenous people themselves. Dismissing their claims to autonomy, under the excuse
of women rights, is no more an instrument to oppress indigenous peoples, including
women.
V. Nations States, National and International Law and Prospects for
Indigenous Equality:
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Despite being tilted towards assimilation and state’s efforts to integrate, ILO
Convention 169 (1957) widely acknowledges the distinctive characteristics of
indigenous people. Consciously avoiding its political implications, the said convention
uses the phrase of indigenous populations rather than ‘peoples’ (ILO 1989). In Anglo-
Saxon states such as America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand where oppressed
groups’ language, land, natural resources and their identity is seriously threatened,
claims to indigenousness distinctiveness and collective-rights-legislation is essential for
their survival and subsequent development within the states (Kymlicka 2001).
Equal rights for all without acknowledging the difference is instrumentalized to cover
up land grabbing and resource extraction without sharing benefits with their real
custodians. A policy of a just society launched by the former Canadian Prime Minister,
Elliot Trudeau, in 1969 is the prime example. Deceptively campaigning for equal rights
for all, his government kept following a racist policy of land-grabbing and resource-
exploitation from native inhabitants of north Canada. In-fact advocating for collective
rights of indigenous peoples is a significant defence for similar discriminations
continued. Similarly, while establishing a wildlife park the Ugandan Government
evicted hunting-gathering Batwa people accusing them to be landless squatters in
contrast to the neighbouring farming community whom it compensated for land
acquisition. Entitlement to land was recognized for its tillers but regretted to its’
sustainable users (Plaice 2003, as cited in Kenrick & Lewis 2004:4).
Despite a unique nature of their relation with land and nature, court debates ignorantly
keep stressing them to prove their ownership to the land under the settler colonial legal
procedures. Circumventing disempowerment and dispossession of land, a prime issue
of the time; indigenous people are pushed into the irrelevant and coercive legal
procedures and discourses. Ironically enough, their similarities to the dominant society
are oppressively emphasised than their peculiar differences to frustrate their claims for
compensation and ownership to land (Bell 2001 & Povinelli 1998 as cited in Ibid).
As warned by the former UNHCHR Mary Robinson, sanctioning norms sounding
repugnant to the so called ‘civilized’ values and human rights principles is actually a
hoax for colonial tendencies. At times it fails to capture in-depth subjective
understanding of indigenous customary law, arbitration and reconciliations in disputes.
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For example, 7 men from Zinacantan (Maya) community in Mexico were accused of
collecting human bodies to bury as sacrifice in the foundations of newly constructed
highways and bridges to give them strength. Formal court failed to secure evidence but
the community largely believed it and mobs were out there to kill them. Indigenous
authorities detained them above 36 hours, violating individual right of not to be
arbitrarily detained beyond 36 hours, to seek reconciliation with the suspecting
families, reconcile and save lives of those mere accused. Unwritten oral procedures of
indigenous justice, at times violates written procedures to deal with the real people in
concrete circumstances. Had they been released the mob would have killed them.
Abstract individual rights were clearly violated in to protect the concrete individuals
and averse larger conflict. What remains traditionally common with the indigenous
people is the social and restorative justice than a retributive one (Speed and Collier
2000:878-901).
With the support of an INGO, San’s reclaim of their indigenous land through court
(2004-2006) in Botswana is one example of implementing indigenous people’s right to
autonomy and maintaining their identity as hunting and gathering community. ‘The
applicants, the court recognised in a final verdict, were lawfully in possession of the
land they occupied and.... were deprived of it forcibly without their consent’. Despite
much of the international media attention and its’ possible contribution towards
international customary law, the San are facing horrible consequences after the verdict.
Botswana denies their indigenous status - as do most states to their indigenous people –
under threats of other political connotations and emerging demands. Less than 200
‘individuals’ – with their kids and spouses – were only allowed to return to the Central
Kalahari Game Reserve6 (CKGR), an indigenous abode of the Sans for thousands of
years. The returnees’ access to water and other vital services is severely constrained.
Dishonouring their indigenous identity further, stigma, discrimination and
marginalization continue unabated (Saugestad 2010).
VI. Considering Criticism and Clarifying Misperceptions:
6 Central Kalahari Game Reserve is a plain area comprising around 5200 SqKm inhabited by the San People for thousands of years, declared as a game reserve in 1961, See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Kalahari_Game_Reserve).
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Critiques say that certain narratives of indigeneity might lead to appalling
consequences. For instance, the brutal Nazi state legitimized its’ genocidal attacks
against Jews on the purity of descent, claims John Bowen. Likewise, some of the Hutus
committing horrible acts of murdering innocent Tutsis in Rwanda against justified the
barbarity for being indigenous and historically oppressed by the Tutsis. In India,
suppressing narratives of kinship and genealogical connection and conversion from
Hinduism to Islam, extremist Hindus term their geneocidal assaults against Muslims to
avenge their historical conquest over indigenous Hindus. Indigenousness claims when
leading to military or political dominion, at times, provide reasons for unrestrained
human rights abuses (Bowen 2000).
Weary of the notion, Kuper (2003: 390-395), lashes-out on the notion of ‘idigenism’
and ‘sovereignty, what he believes are based on essentialism of ‘descent’, ‘identity’ and
‘locale,’ which are not only complicated and unempirical to trace rather encourage
forged claims to seek land, lakes, hearths and forests. The idea resonates with the
rightwing extremism and he even terms it a kind of neo-racism, yielding dangerous
political consequences. It is either romanticism or opportunism that motivates the
indigenous rights campaigners, hunting for the projects and resources held by UNOs,
INGOs and the states. Number of scholars and experts retaliated on his false and
phony perceptions about indigeneity and their claims for distinction. He is reminded of
turning a blind eye to the historical and contemporary oppression, dispossession and
marginalization that indigenous peoples suffered from. Movement for their right to self-
governance is actually a struggle for equal rights, justice, reparation and restitution
against the past and present unfairness inflicted upon them. It is a struggle to divert
unequal relations of power and negotiate difference (Kenrick & Lewis 2004: 5-9,
Saugestad. 2008:170).
VII. Conclusions:
Despite spectacularly standing apart, there is no essentialist or quintessential
uniqueness of the indigenous people that we need to contend for. Their distinctiveness
should rather be understood in a relational sense. What is essential is to end the
historical discrimination, disempowerment and dispossession of the indigenous people
through compensation, reparation, restitution and institutionalization of their equal
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rights and dignity like every other population within the boundaries of a nation-state.
This is what most of the indigenous peoples, activists and advocates of their rights are
mainly struggling for (Saugestad 2001a; Kenrick & Lewis 2004). It is less a question of
material compensations, but a demand for retaining people’s right to a way of life, their
autonomy and relationship to land, their identity and culture. Political exclusion and
marginalization makes indigenous people highly dependent on the state authorities. To
individualize and collapse their collectiveness to compensate, the usual state
behaviour turns them into the needy, sick and destitute individuals looking for state
welfare and assistance. Essentialness of difference, socio-cultural and spiritual, imparts
them a quality and certain entitlements that states are really afraid off and attempt to
quell it. But the very quality makes their claims distinguished from normal class
oppression, minority rights, ethnic claims or just putting an end to economic
discrimination (Gledhill 1997: 96-101).
There is no standard method of implementing the right to equality. All depends on the
mutual consent and priorities of the indigenous peoples and their respective states
(Stevenhagen, 2008: 42-45). However autonomy and remedial self-determination is the
best possible way to remove discriminations, injustices and violations historically
inflicted upon indigenous people (Anaya 2008: 50-57).
Indigenous peoples are in-fact people with different social organization, different
histories, values and customary systems of law and resource-management. A whole
body of literature is there about indigenous authorities involved in violating individual
rights for following a different customs, mainly in case of rights de passage, but little
has been written on state-authorities violating the rightful aspirations of indigenous
peoples. The cliché of all citizens’ are equal before law, covertly intends to treat people
as individuals and the same. What indigenous people are aspiring for, is their rightful
claim to distinction of their cultures, languages, laws and value systems that must be
recognized nationally and internationally. The most effective way to construct a plural
socio-legal system is to engage indigenous people in the process rather than
exclusively imposing a western notion of human rights. Their internal inequalities can
also be addressed by bringing their context and human rights ideals closer to each
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other. The paradoxical hurdle is that states, themselves the worst violators of rights, are
normatively obliged to protect their rights (Speed & Collier 2000: 901-905).
Beyond an attempt for anthropological correctness – as attempted by Kuper, Bernard
and others, it sounds politically astute to support the rights of indigenous people, as
advocated by Saugestad, Theun, Kymlicka and Kenrick & Lewis, given the historical
discrimination and injustices inflicted upon them. Their conspicuous distinctiveness
makes them neither better nor worse to the dominant society, but axiomatically equal
like all other human groups. Fighting for the rights of indigenous peoples on the
grounds of human rights is more adequate than contesting for an authentic or orthodox
definition of distinctiveness. Under the circumstances, what matters is the removal of
suppression and forced assimilation that indigenous people are facing in most of the
nation-states7. Being different is neither derogatory nor externally imposed. Indigenous
peoples themselves warmly own and vehemently propounded the very property of
being different (Discussion Paper: 2006).
For indigenous leaders, it is a global struggle between the oppressed natives and the
illegitimate alien rule which can never be fully realized until their autonomy as ‘a
nation’ is acknowledged in root and branch. This is true that every UN entity now
acknowledges indigenous people as distinct, but states mechanisms of realizing it do
not commensurate with. The indigenous nation not the nation-state embodies all that is
most consistent with human survival..contrasting cold empiricism of science and
rapacious industrialism...and their harmony with nature is endangered by human
destructivism (Niezen 2001, 195-200).
It must be noted that, root cause of the problem is ‘political’ hence is the possible
solution. Sometimes it is said that the indigenous people of North America are going
through a cultural revival, which is off course an exaggeration, as most the people have
already lost their land, language and indigenous knowledge. But one cannot deny their
rightful demand and persistent struggle to regain their collective-self. Also, the
symbolic efforts in this regard, paving a path for indigenous peoples own way of life
cannot be undermined. Without overlooking the significance and potentials of DDRIP
7 Paert of the insights of such conclusions has been gained from the discussion paper, Discussion: The Concept of Indigeneity, presented in Social Anthropology (2006)
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and International Law, ultimately a lot depends on indigenous people’s own will and
assertiveness on their identity and distinctive way of life along with their supporters
who deem it important for human progress. International Human Rights Law is
important if implemented in true spirit, which is unfortunately a rare case at present.
(Samson 2008).
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