Protection of Tribal traditions and cultural expressions

Abstract

Indigenous peoples and nations have been making demands for protection and promotion of their intellectual property, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions in domestic and international fora. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literature, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions. After this, another discussion was on two different faces of legislation the discussion was on the notion of development, education and different language. This is the first aggression on the culture of the people and this was the basis of development and this continues till today. The first and the most traumatic event in the life of a person is when you are denied the language that you are most comfortable with to express yourself. So, this was the first trauma that was inflicted on the tribals through what we know of as modern education and modern development.