The Heritage and Future of Indigenous Rights within Settler-Colonial Commonwealth Nations in the Environmental Emergency

环境紧急情况加剧了长期存在的全球不平等现象，对一线土著社区的影响尤为严重。这是殖民造成的生态和社会破坏的延续，留下了种族化的社会和气候不公正的遗产。环境维持文化和遗产并为其提供信息的方式往往被低估。最近，加拿大和新西兰承诺将法律与《联合国土著人民权利宣言》（UNDRIP 2007）保持一致，这为重新定义和实施土著主导的变革创造了一个独特而有力的机会：肯定土著社区保护和维护文化、遗产、治理、领土和当地生态系统的权利。作为参与的、基于行动的研究，FLF将解决特定社区面临的复杂挑战，并支持土著社区主导的关于加拿大卑诗省和新西兰奥特罗阿省生态和文化管理方面的当地优先事项的决策，以帮助为每个国家的文化遗产和环境管理的系统性变革提供信息。

The environmental emergency is exacerbating longstanding global inequalities, disproportionately effecting frontline Indigenous communities. This is a continuation of the ecological and social devastation wrought by colonisation, that left a legacy of racialized social and climate injustice. The way environments sustain and inform cultures and heritage is often undervalued. The recent commitment to align laws in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP 2007) creates a unique and powerful opportunity to reconceptualise and enact Indigenous-led change: affirming Indigenous communities' rights to protect and maintain culture, heritage, governance, territories, and local ecosystems. As engaged, action-based research, the FLF will tackle complex challenges facing specific communities and support Indigenous community-led decision-making on local priorities around ecological and cultural stewardship in BC Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand to help inform systemic change in cultural heritage and environmental management in each country.