Contents -- Preface: Respect for Elder Knowledge -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, Methodology, and Thematic Overview -- Part 1: Our Voices, Our Culture -- 1 Recovering from Colonization: Perspectives of Community Members on Protection and Repatriation of Kwakwaka'wakw Cultural Heritage -- 2 The Law Is Opened: The Constitutional Role of Tangible and Intangible Property in Gitanyow -- 3 Northwest Coast Adawx Study -- 4 'A'lhut tu tet Sul'hweentst [Respecting the Ancestors]: Understanding Hul'qumi'num Heritage Laws and Concerns for the Protection of Archaeological Heritage -- 5 Repatriation and Heritage Protection: Reflections on the Kainai Experience -- 6 Poomaksin: Skinnipiikani-Nitsiitapii Law, Transfers, and Making Relatives: Practices and Principles for Cultural Protection, Repatriation, Redress, and Heritage Law Making with Canada -- 7 Protection and Repatriation of Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Cultural Resources: Perspectives of Community Members -- Part 2: Experiences across the Nation -- 8 First Nations Cultural Heritage: A Selected Survey of Issues and Initiatives -- Part 3: Reflections on Selected Themes -- 9 Canadian Aboriginal Languages and the Protection of Cultural Heritage -- 10 Canada's Policy of Cultural Colonization: Indian Residential Schools and the Indian Act -- 11 Owning as Belonging/Owning as Property: The Crisis of Power and Respect in First Nations Heritage Transactions with Canada -- Concluding Thoughts and Unanswered Questions -- Appendix: Standard Question Set -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.