Guidelines include purpose of indigenous heritage conservation and the consultation and negotiation process. Includes indigenous management checklist.

Staging Indigenous Heritage examines the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia. Demonstrating that such villages are often beset with the politics of brokerage and representation, the book shows that this reinforces a culture of dependency on the brokers. By critically examining the relationship between Indigenous tourism and development through the establishment of Indigenous cultural villages, the book addresses the complexities of adopting the ‘culture for development’ paradigm as a developmental strategy. Demonstrating that the opportunities for self-representation and self-determination can become entwined with the politics of brokerage and the contradictory dualism of culture, it becomes clear that this can both facilitate and compromise their intended outcomes. Challenging the simplistic conceptualisation of Indigenous communities as harmonious and unified wholes, the book shows how Indigenous cultures are actively forged, struggled over, and negotiated in contemporary Malaysia. Confronting the largely positive rhetoric in current discourses on the benefits of community-based cultural projects, Staging Indigenous Heritage should be essential reading for academics and students in the fields of museum studies, cultural heritage studies, Indigenous studies, development studies, tourism, anthropology, and geography. The book should also be of interest to museum and heritage professionals around the world.

Australian Museum Consulting (AM Consulting) was commissioned by Clarence Valley Council (Council) to prepare an Aboriginal Heritage Study for the Clarence Valley Local Government Area (LGA). The heritage study will inform future management of Aboriginal cultural heritage within the existing relevant New South Wales (NSW) and Commonwealth Statutory frameworks. The aim of this Study is to identify places of significance, record those places (if appropriate), and develop recommendations for their management and conservation, which will assist Council to develop strategies to manage Aboriginal sites and places and develop a protocol for ongoing Aboriginal community liaison. Consultation with local Aboriginal community members was undertaken to ensure that their views and opinions were included in the identification and recording of any objects or places of Aboriginal cultural or archaeological significance within the study area. A summary of the Aboriginal consultation that has occurred is provided in Section 3. The Clarence Valley Aboriginal community would prefer not to have detailed information about Aboriginal site locations included in a publically available document. It was therefore understood that not all heritage sites should be mapped or identified in detail, but that general areas that are important to the community, or where archaeological sites are present, should be indicated. However, historical research and consultation with the local Aboriginal community indicated that there are areas of Aboriginal heritage sensitivity within the LGA that Council should be made aware of when considering applications for development. These areas of Aboriginal heritage sensitivity are summarised in Section 5. The environmental planning instrument that protects Aboriginal heritage in the Clarence Valley LGA is the Clarence Valley Local Environmental Plan 2011. This planning instrument requires Council to consider the impact of proposed development on known or potential Aboriginal heritage places and archaeological sites within the Clarence Valley LGA A number of recommendations to Council are provided in Section 6, and are summarised as follows: In considering applications for development, Council should determine whether an Aboriginal Heritage Assessment has been undertaken, and whether there is any potential for an Aboriginal object, place or site to be affected by the development. If no such assessment has been undertaken by the proponent, and there is reasonable potential for an Aboriginal object, place, site or area to be affected, then Council should request that an Aboriginal Heritage Assessment be undertaken, in consultation with the local Aboriginal community in accordance with OEH's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Consultation Requirements for Proponents 2010, before development consent is issued. Any Development Application (DA) which proposes harm to an Aboriginal object or Aboriginal place must be dealt with as Integrated Development under Section 91 of the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979. Such applications must be forwarded to OEH to determine whether the Director General of OEH is prepared to issue an Aboriginal Heritage Impact Permit. Ultimately the DA cannot be approved by Council without the approval of OEH, if an Aboriginal Heritage Impact Permit is required to enable the development to proceed. It is recommended that an Aboriginal Heritage Assessment be undertaken, in consultation with the local Aboriginal community in accordance with OEH's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Consultation Requirements for Proponents 2010, in cases of Integrated Development. Where a proposed development area includes archaeologically sensitive landforms, it is recommended that Council should require a due diligence process for assessing potential harm to Aboriginal objects to be undertaken, in accordance with the Due Diligence Code of Practice for the Protection of Aboriginal Objects in New South Wales (DECCW.

This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and community development. Based on extensive ethnographic field studies and comprehensive narrative interviews, it shows how the three First Nation communities presented in the case studies enforce recognition of their collective rights to preserve their cultural heritage and assert their right to political, economic, cultural, and social self-determination. It also considers the prevailing universalistic discourses around World Heritage and the various ways in which they serve to either reinforce existing oppressive conditions regarding Indigenous communities and voices or provide opportunities to overcome them. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on social and cultural histories, histories of colonialism, and in heritage and museum studies.

This book includes twenty case studies of World Heritage sites from around the world that explore, from a human rights perspective, indigenous peoples' experiences with World Heritage sites and with the processes of the World Heritage Convention. The book will serve as a resource for indigenous peoples, World Heritage site managers, and UNESCO, as well as academics, and it will contribute to discussions about what changes or actions are needed to ensure that World Heritage sites can play a consistently positive role for indigenous peoples, in line with the spirit of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.