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Indigenous peoples and the development of international law
Patrick Thornberry
1979 case of Coe v Commonwealth, 53 AJLR, 403. See also H. Reynolds, Aboriginal Sovereignty (Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1996). 139 85 Indigenous peoples in international law Europeans. With Sepúlveda, the negation of indigenous authority was radical, and linked to an assault on the rationality of indigenous societies. In the case of the doctrine of terra nullius, the mismatch between European conceptions of governance and non-European social, cultural and political organisation was extreme. Metaphors to describe the indigenous – children, natural slaves – continue to