The Future of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities: Ancestral governance, environmental stewardship, language revival, and cultural vibrancy.

该项目的重点是土著权利和优先事项。该项目在K 'omox、Pentlatch和E' iksan（加拿大温哥华岛）和毛利人（新西兰奥特亚罗瓦）的祖先领地开展工作，将深入研究祖先领导、基于地方的起源故事、环境管理、文化社团、舞蹈团体和语言专家。它将解决当地土著社区最紧迫的四个问题：1）祖先治理的更新，2）环境管理，3）语言复兴，4）文化振兴。该项目采取切实可行的办法，提高社区对土地、海洋和生态系统的习惯权利和责任的认识。它将有助于绘制家庭关系图，使社区成员与祖先的知识重新联系起来，并追踪他们与不同地方和亲属的联系。这项工作实际上是非殖民化，由当地需求和优先事项主导。它旨在帮助克服许多社区成员在殖民化和文化种族灭绝中失去的知识，如2015年真相与和解委员会报告所述。该项目建立在团队成员在非殖民化、文化复兴和愈合方面的独立工作及其国际网络的基础上。该项目将支持温哥华岛和奥特亚罗瓦之间持续的文化交流关系。跨文化工作为文化和语言更新、领导和治理以及谈判土著-定居者关系的战略提供了不同的模式。在奥特亚罗瓦，UNDRIP不仅已被纳入法律，而且现在正在根据实现目标进行衡量，使其比2019年采用UNDRIP的加拿大领先一步。

The project focuses on Indigenous rights and priorities. Working in the ancestral territories of the K'omox, Pentlatch, and E'iksan (Vancouver Island, Canada) and Maori (Aotearoa, New Zealand), the project will do in-depth work with ancestral leadership, place based origin stories, environmental stewardship, cultural societies, dance groups and language specialists. It will address four of the most pressing issues for the local Indigenous communities: 1) the renewal of ancestral governance, 2) environmental stewardship, 3) language revival, and 4) cultural revitalisation. The project takes practical approaches to raise community awareness of customary rights and responsibilities to the land, ocean, and ecosystems. It will help map family relations, reconnecting community members with ancestral knowledge and trace their ties to different places and kinships. This work is decolonisation in practice, led by local needs and priorities. It is designed to help overcome knowledge lost to many community members though colonisation and cultural genocide, as documented in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Reports 2015. This project builds on the team members' independent work on decolonisation, cultural renewal and healing, and their international networks. The project will support an ongoing relationship of cultural exchange between Vancouver Island and Aotearoa. Working across cultures provides different models for cultural and language renewal, leadership and governance, and strategies to negotiate Indigenous-settler relationships. In Aotearoa, UNDRIP has not only been adopted into law, but it is now being measured against attainment goals, making it a step ahead of Canada that adopted UNDRIP in 2019.